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Splitting an octahedron into 48 parts along
every plane of symmetry

Enric is a PhD student at Imperial and UCL. He works mostly with singularities in differential geometry, AKA when smooth things become pointy. When he’s not in his office, you can usually find him cooking or playing board games.

In conversation with Jens Marklof
Bethany Clarke and Enric Solé-Farré chat to the professor and new president of the London Mathematical Society about academia, access and awards
Who needs differentiation?
Paddy MacMahon calculates tangents and turning points without calculus
Integration: It’s more than the sum of its parts
Defining what exactly an integral is leads naturally to an explanation of how to handle approximating them.
Modelling blood
Blood is exceptionally complicated and its composition varies from person to person. So how do we begin to model it?
Seeing double
Take a ball, divide it into parts, glue them back and get two identical copies of your ball!
New largest prime number discovered!
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