Issue 03 was released in March 2016. Enjoy the articles online or scroll down to view the magazine as a PDF.
Features
Analogue computing: fun with differential equations
Solving differential equations instantaneously, using some electrical components and an oscilloscope
Roots: the legacy of Fibonacci
More than spirals and rabbits, Fibonacci gave us something much more fundamental.
The Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner
The great contributions of the man who started popular mathematics
Spherical Dendrite by Mark J Stock
The story behind Issue 3's cover artwork
You can count on Dirichlet
Counting the divisors of an integer turns out to be a rather hard problem
A mathematical view of voting systems
Why voting systems can never be fair
Menace: the Machine Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine
Teaching a bunch of matchboxes how to play tic-tac-toe
Fractional calculus: the calculus of witchcraft and wizardry
How can we differentiate a function 9¾ times?
In conversation with Ian Stewart
We speak to one of Britain's most successful popularisers of maths
Fun
How to make: a hexaflexagon
Make an amazing three faced hexagon
Top Ten vote: Colours of chalk
Vote for your favourite colour of chalk for Issue 04: is it white, yellow, or the Post Office Tower?
What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 03
Maths is a fickle world. Stay à la mode with our guide to the latest trends.
Puzzles, Issue 03
Solve the puzzles that appeared in Issue 03.
Page 3 model: Traffic flow
Ever been stuck in motorway traffic which seems to have no reason? A model for traffic flow explains why.
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 03
Prof. Dirichlet tackles deaf colleagues and cold badgers.
Prize crossnumber, Issue 03
Be in for a chance to win a £100 goody bag if you can solve our fiendish crossnumber
Horoscope, Issue 03
Find out what the future holds for you... or maybe just a box of scorpions.
Comic: The Inverse Homotopy, part 2
Part 2 of our mathematical comic's adventureTop Ten: Calculators
Are you a FX-82 or an FX-85 fan?
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