jakob - Chalkdust

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!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Adventures in Chance-ylvania
High stakes gambling with Paula Rowińska
Surname extinction
Why do surnames die out? We take a look at the Galton-Watson process for modelling the extinction of surnames to answer the question: 'When will we all be Smiths?'
Names for large numbers
Extending the million, billion, trillion system to much, much bigger numbers
Do you have too many or too few friends?
Do we have a natural limitation on the number of friends that we have?