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Issue 10

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

23 October 2019

Issue 10 was released on 24 October 2019. Enjoy the articles online or scroll down to view the magazine as a PDF.

Features

Can computers prove theorems?
And will we soon all be out of a job? Kevin Buzzard worries us all.
In conversation with Clifford Cocks
We chat to the crypto chief about inventing RSA... but not being able to tell anyone
On √2
Yiannis Petridis connects square roots and continued fractions
Spotlight on: Pamela Harris
Pamela E Harris's story, as told by Talithia Williams
Artificial music
Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
They might not be giants
Angela Brett might not be standing on their shoulders
On the cover: Islamic geometry
Explaining the mathematics of tiling, and the cover of Issue 10
$Crocheting fractals$
Crocheting fractals
Ever thought about making your own fractal?
Secrets, surveys and statistics
Paula Rowińska uses mathematics to answer some awkward questions
Curiosities of linearly ordered sets
Andrei Chekmasov explores order and infinity

Fun

Prize crossnumber, Issue 10
Can you solve it?
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 10
Letter writing, hospital visits, and getting the family active are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
Comic: The Inverse Homotopy, part 7
Part 7 of our mathematical comic's adventure
Which mathematician are you?
How do you like your numbers? Prime? Positive but infinitely small? Find out which famous mathematician you are
What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 10
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
Top Ten: issues of Chalkdust
The definitive chart of the best issues of Chalkdust
Page 3 model: Bees
You won't bee-lieve it
Top ten vote issue 10
Vote for your favourite picture of a scorpion
How to make: tessellating shortbread
Tasty and mathematical

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