B1 - Chalkdust

The nucleon

Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

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Dear Dirichlet, Issue 19
Game shows, flight and social media bots are among the problems solved in this issue's Dear Dirichlet agony aunt column
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
The sieve of Eratosthenes: revisited
How can we teach people about the sieve in a way that helps them best understand prime numbers?
How many quadratics factorise?
Write down a quadratic. What is the probability that it factorises? Paging Prof. Dirichet...
100 years with the Sierpinski triangle
Three ways to obtain and generalise a beautiful fractal