yoshimoto - Chalkdust

The two halves of a Yoshimoto cube

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
A day in the life: teachers
We talk to three teachers, working in different countries
How can we tell that 2≠1?
Maynard manages to prove that 2≠1 in less space than it took Bertrand Russell to prove that 1+1=2
Is it possible to reach absolute zero?
After 100 years, a key postulate of the third law of thermodynamics has been proven. We meet Lluis Masanes, one of the researchers responsible.
Switching sides in a matrix equation
Looking for a neat description of this useful matrix part-inverse
Fermat Point by Suman Vaze
The maths behind Issue 02's cover