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Issue 06

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.

19 October 2017

Issue 06 was released on 19 October 2017. Enjoy the articles online or scroll down to view the magazine as a PDF.

Features

In conversation with Cédric Villani
We feel underdressed for Breakfast at Villani's
Cardioids in coffee cups
Staring at your coffee, you wonder whether the light reflecting in cup really is a cardioid curve...
Mathematics for the three-fingered mathematician
Robert J Low flips one upside down.
The mathematics of Maryam Mirzakhani
We take a proper look at her mathematical accomplishments
Biography of Sophie Bryant
A biography of Sophie Bryant
Geographic profiling
Murder, maths, malaria and mammals
Roots: Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was driven to begin the mechanisation of mathematics by his father's struggles with an accounts book in 17th century France.
On the cover: Euclidean Egg III
Euclidean Egg III makes the cover of issue 06!
Pretty pictures in the complex plane
Contemplate the beauty of the Julia and Mandelbrot sets and an elegant mathematical explanation of them
Pretend numbers
20 questions, the axiom of choice and colouring sequences.

Fun

Prize crossnumber, Issue 06
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 06
Prof. Dirichlet tackles archaeology and supercomputers in answering your personal problems
Comic: The Inverse Homotopy, part 5
Part 5 of our mathematical comic's adventure
Which mathematical software are you?
"R" you a Matlab or a Python? Fortran or Mathematica? Find out which package suits you best.
Top Ten: Geometry instruments
The definitive chart of the best tools
What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 06
Mathematical fashion advice for an ever-changing world
Top ten vote issue 06
Vote for your favourite mathematical celebration day
Page 3 model: Crowd control
Modelling a Saturday afternoon on Oxford Street
How to make: a hyperbolic plane
A great way to waste a lot of paper

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