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Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Chalkdust dissertation prize 2025
Calling all final-year students! This is your opportunity to get your work published as a Chalkdust article.
Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 18
Phone assistants, duplicating pastries, and being a 10 anywhere else are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
The first negative dimension
A tribute to alumni Roly Drower by Hugh Duncan
Why self-service machines give such awful change
Unexpected item in bagging areAAAARGGGHH here's 90p change in pennies