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Published 25 October 2024 at 454 × 2120 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 $\square$?
An Introduction to the Math of Voting Methods
We review the second of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
On the cover: Islamic geometry
Explaining the mathematics of tiling, and the cover of Issue 10
Killing by numbers: the mathematics of warfare
A blast from the past. Modelling battle grounds from ancient Greece.