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The behind the research team

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
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Top ten: Mathematical norms
The undisputed chart of the best mathematical norms this season
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Dog leads, mirrors and Hermann Minkowski
Donovan Young looks at the shapes made when two cones collide
Roots: Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was driven to begin the mechanisation of mathematics by his father's struggles with an accounts book in 17th century France.