Issue 14 was released on 22 November 2021. Enjoy the articles online or scroll down to view the magazine as a PDF.
Features
That’s a Moiré
Donovan Young interferes in wave patterns
On the cover: Vhat? Vhere? Venn
Madeleine Hall takes a brief dive into the world’s favourite set-relationship-representation diagram.
Handbook of equations
Forgotten how to draw a log graph? No need to panic – here's a handy guide!
In conversation with Dominique Sleet
Ellen Jolley learns how to run a maths outreach programme
An odd card trick
Michael Wendl dissects some variants of the magic separation, a self-working card trick.
Correction: Who is the best England manager?
Paddy provides a much anticipated update to the most important use of statistical analysis in the last two years
Pawns, puzzles, and proofs
Dimitrios Roxanas tells us why playing chess backwards is the new black (and white).
A walk on the random side
Tanmay Kulkarni intentionally gets lost on the Tokyo subway
How Polish cryptographers first broke the unbreakable cipher
Kimi Chen deciphers the 1920s story you haven’t heard
Celebrating simple mathematical models
Hollis Williams explores the power even simple models can have in describing the world around us.
Fun
Prize crossnumber, Issue 14
Win a £100 Maths Gear goody bag by solving our infamous puzzle
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 14
Football, telly and shape-shifting houses find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
Cryptic crossword, Issue 14
Can you solve it?
Page 3 model: Woollen jumpers
How did your favourite sweater become so big? And how big can it get?
Top Ten: Waves
The definitive chart of the best waves
What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 14
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
The big argument: Is dy/dx notation better than y’ or ẋ?
The Leibniz–Lagrange–Newton showdown we all want to seeTop ten vote issue 14
Have your say on the top ten matrices
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