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Madeleine is a former pHd StUdEnT in mathematics and behavioural genomics at Imperial College London. She likes open water swimming, toast, the Oxford comma, and tHiS mEmE. She has still found none of her optimised strokes of any use in the Serpentine.

The big argument: Is Matlab better than Python?
Which do you prefer?
Significant figures: Gladys West
Madeleine Hall looks at one of the minds behind GPS
My favourite LaTeX package
The Chalkdust editors share some of their favourites
On the cover: Vhat? Vhere? Venn
Madeleine Hall takes a brief dive into the world’s favourite set-relationship-representation diagram.
Issue 13
Sus Mafia strategies, LMS president Ulrike Tillmann, and Bae's theorem ❤️ all feature in our spring 2021 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
On conditional probability: Cards, Covid, and Crazy Rich Asians
Madeleine Hall explores the sometimes counterintuitive consequences of conditional probability to our everyday lives.