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Nora is a master’s student at UCL, interested in applied maths. When not studying, you can (almost always) find her reading.

Significant figures: Sofya Kovalevskaya
Nora Koparan tells the story of the first female professor of mathematics
That’s Mathematics
We review the first of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
How Polish cryptographers first broke the unbreakable cipher
Kimi Chen deciphers the 1920s story you haven’t heard
Fun with Markov chains
I love Markov is I love Markov chains love me.
The n days of Christmas
Get into the ChristMATHS spirit with the maths behind the popular Christmas carol!
You can count on Dirichlet
Counting the divisors of an integer turns out to be a rather hard problem