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Published 25 October 2024 at 476 × 476 in Winning Wythoff’s game

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Sam is a maths student at Durham University where he hosts
Chalkboard Ultra podcast and spends too much time thinking about the Standard Model and Mexican hats. If he’s not pestering Adam then he can definitely be found playing the keytar in a funk band completely unrelated to quantum field theory.

A symmetric universe
Sam Kay reflects on building a universe
The big argument: Should we write another issue?
How much barrel is left to scrape?
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
A Ring of Cats and Dogs
We review the first of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
The spider witch project
Constructing a spiderweb: in the spookiest and most horrific way possible!
The Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner
The great contributions of the man who started popular mathematics