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Tom is a PhD student in the UCL Physics Department, simulating atomic collisions. He likes to think that what he does ‘technically counts as maths.’

On the cover: Hydrogen orbitals
Find out more about the weird shapes on the cover of Issue 08
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.
Baking a Menger sponge sponge
Sam Hartburn bakes your favourite fractal
Machine learning 101
Start your quest to conquer the planet with this introduction to the wonderful world of machine learning
The n days of Christmas
Get into the ChristMATHS spirit with the maths behind the popular Christmas carol!
Music playlists, Facebook and Twitter
Here is a very exciting way to measure how similar is your music playlist between your friends, or how similar are your Facebook contacts.