Issue 08 was released on 19 October 2018. Enjoy the articles online or scroll down to view the magazine as a PDF.
Features
In conversation with Eugenia Cheng
We chat to the author of the best-selling book How to Bake Pi and pioneer of maths on YouTube
Too good to be Truchet
Colin Beveridge looks at different designs for 2- and 3-dimensional tiles
Topological tic-tac-toe
Alex Bolton plays noughts and crosses on unusual surfaces
Somewhere over the critical line
Read about Maxamillion Polignac's adventures in a prime-hating world
Mathematics and art: the ELHP
Adam Atkinson uses maths to try to help a sculptor
On the cover: Hydrogen orbitals
Find out more about the weird shapes on the cover of Issue 08
What is the point of intersection?
Elizabeth A Williams falls off a log
Roots: Gerolamo Cardano
Emma Bell explains why the Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano styled himself as the "man of discoveries".
An invitation to category theory
Just what is category theory? Tai-Danae Bradley explains
Significant figures: Katherine Johnson
Biography of Katherine Johnson, NASA human computer and research mathematician
The magnetic pendulum
A tabletop demonstration of chaos.
Fun
How to make: a Möbius Surprise
Surprise yourself by making this thing
Hilbert’s hotel: the board game
Print it out and play against your friends!
Prize crossnumber, Issue 08
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
Which number are you?
Are you perfect or imaginary? Are you a square?
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 08
Village fetes, Brexit and flowers are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
Top Ten: Units of measurement
The definitive chart of the best unitsTop ten vote issue 08
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I ❤️ maths
Tired of hearing people ask which area of maths is your favourite? Get one of these tattooed on your forehead and you'll never be asked again...
Page 3 model: Ponytails
Many mysteries about hair are now revealed with the ponytail shape equation
What’s hot and what’s not, issue 08
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
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