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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
Calling all final-year students!
We don’t talk about the integers
Simone Ramello explores the hic sunt leones of the friendliest numbers we know...
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
On conditional probability: Cards, Covid, and Crazy Rich Asians
Madeleine Hall explores the sometimes counterintuitive consequences of conditional probability to our everyday lives.
Christmas puzzle #1: Christmas tree sudoku
Puzzle #1 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
Integration: It’s more than the sum of its parts
Defining what exactly an integral is leads naturally to an explanation of how to handle approximating them.