Back issues of Chalkdust

  • Read Issue 20 now!

    Read Issue 20 now!

    8 November 2024
    Spirographs, complex triangles and a lot of ants feature in our AW24 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 19

    Issue 19

    20 May 2024
    Drinks orders, integer mysteries and the new LMS president feature in our SS24 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 18

    Issue 18

    6 December 2023
    Twitch streaming, abacuses and Pascal's secrets feature in our AW23 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 17

    Issue 17

    22 May 2023
    Penguins, prison and PDE patterns feature in our Spring 2023 issue. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 16

    Issue 16

    9 November 2022
    Fields medals, iconic intersections, and things with silly names coming your way in our autumn 2022 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 15

    Issue 15

    25 May 2022
    Squid Game, hidden harmonies and DnD coming your way in our brand new issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 14

    Issue 14

    22 November 2021
    Venn diagrams, retrograde chess, and behind-the-scenes Christmas lectures all feature in our autumn 2021 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 13

    Issue 13

    1 May 2021
    Sus Mafia strategies, LMS president Ulrike Tillmann, and Bae's theorem ❤️ all feature in our spring 2021 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 12

    Issue 12

    30 October 2020
    Independent Sage's Christina Pagel, hyperbolic mindfulness and make-your-own Markov tweet feature in our autumn 2020 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 11

    Issue 11

    17 April 2020
    Space-filling curves, cheating at cards and automated joke generation feature in our spring 2020 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 10

    Issue 10

    23 October 2019
    Computational proofs, AI music and embarrassing surveys feature in the autumn 2019 issue. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
  • Issue 09

    Issue 09

    14 March 2019
    Ride a phantom parabola into our spring 2019 issue. Billiards, maths, tiles, mistakes, plus all your favourite regulars.
  • Issue 08

    Issue 08

    18 October 2018
    Swing on a magnetic pendulum into our autumn 2018 issue. Topological tic-tac-toe, maths, cake, categories, plus all your favourite regulars.
  • Issue 07

    Issue 07

    12 March 2018
    Think outside outside the box in our spring 2018 issue. No more tennis puns, primes mod 4, plus all your favourite regulars.
  • Issue 06

    Issue 06

    19 October 2017
    Cardioids in coffee cups, counting with three fingers, and breakfast at Villani's. Plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2017 issue.
  • Issue 05

    Issue 05

    6 March 2017
    Graphical linear algebra, slide rules and game theory in nature. Plus all your favourite fun pages in our spring 2017 issue.
  • Issue 04

    Issue 04

    3 October 2016
    Problem solving 101, proof by storytelling, plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2016 edition.
  • Issue 03

    Issue 03

    13 March 2016
    Fractional calculus, counting divisors, whether voting can ever be fair and much more
  • Issue 02

    Issue 02

    9 October 2015
    The joy of Jacobians, the perils of p-values, and a chat in the pub with Fields medallist Artur Avila
  • Issue 01

    Issue 01

    24 March 2015
    The perfect game of Pac-Man, the maths of wormholes, and Anna talking at Hannah Fry