Game shows, flight and social media bots are among the problems solved in this issue's Dear Dirichlet agony aunt column

Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey unpick the legacy of some of the most ubiquitous names in statistics

Football, telly and shape-shifting houses find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.

In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.

We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller's new book

When people do science for money…