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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
What can you do with this space?
Nobody could draw a space filling curve by hand, but that doesn’t stop Andrew Stacey
On the cover: Islamic geometry
Explaining the mathematics of tiling, and the cover of Issue 10
Routes: Edsger Dijkstra
In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.
MathsJam 2017
Chalkdust descends upon the UK's largest pop maths gathering and tells you what you missed
Roots: All things being equal
The story of how we got the equals sign

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