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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.

Poly-π
Clem Padin calculates π, but not as we know it
Significant figures: Sofya Kovalevskaya
Nora Koparan tells the story of the first female professor of mathematics
The hidden harmonies of Hamming distance
Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
Issue 09
Ride a phantom parabola into our spring 2019 issue. Billiards, maths, tiles, mistakes, plus all your favourite regulars.
On the cover: Harriss spiral
Find out more about the spiral trees on the cover of Issue 09
Routes: Edsger Dijkstra
In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.