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Issue 15

Squid Game, hidden harmonies and DnD coming your way in our brand new issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.

Issue 15 was released to the world on 25 May 2022. Enjoy the articles online or scroll down to view the magazine as a PDF.

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Features

In conversation with Sammie Buzzard
Ellen talks to the mathematician and scientist about Attenborough, arctan and Antarctica
Surviving the bridge in Squid Game
E Adrian Henle, Nick Gantzler, François-Xavier Coudert & Cory Simon team up for a deadly challenge
Accidentally mathematical songs
Goran Newsum always should be someone you really love
On the cover: Regular tilings
Poppy Azmi explores the patterns that are all around us
The power of curly brackets
Mats Vermeeren sketches a simple proof of Noether's first theorem
Significant figures: Gladys West
Madeleine Hall looks at one of the minds behind GPS
The hidden harmonies of Hamming distance
Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
Slaying the dragon
Callum Ilkiw takes us through a Dungeons and Dragons dice dilemma
My secret
Julia Schanen hates being mistaken for a genius.
Covering infinity
Sophie Bleau uncovers the secrets behind covering maps
An uncomfortable truth
Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey unpick the legacy of some of the most ubiquitous names in statistics

Fun

Prize crossnumber, Issue 15
Win a £100 Maths Gear goody bag by solving our infamous puzzle
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 15
Weddings, holidays and catfish find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
Cryptic crossword, Issue 15
Can you solve it?
The big argument: Are whiteboards better than blackboards?
Board yet? You will be.
Which Greek letter are you?
Are you β? Are you γ?
My favourite LaTeX package
The Chalkdust editors share some of their favourites
Book of the Year 2021
We announce the winner of this coveted prize
Top Ten: Matrices
The definitive chart of the best matrices
What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 15
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
Page 3 model: The potato Earth
How Kelvin estimated the age of the Earth by thinking about a baked potato

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