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Splitting the octahedron into 12 hexahedra

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
Christmas puzzles: the solutions
We reveal the solutions to our Christmas puzzles!
On curvature: cars, clothoids and cartography
Issah Merchant discusses the geometric principles behind, and real-world applications of, curvature
Crossnumber winners, Issue 08
Did you solve it?
Roots: Gerolamo Cardano
Emma Bell explains why the Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano styled himself as the "man of discoveries".
Tupper’s self-referential formula
A hideous equation that hides beautiful images, and much (much) more besides...