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It’s Monday morning on Surrey campus, and you’ve woken up nice and early for your 10am lecture. It’s the start of a new term and you’re certain that, with your new morning routine, everything will be different this time: you’ll get perfect sleep every night, and your fellow students will all be in awe of how switched on you seem in lectures.

On your way to the lecture,...

Moonlighting agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems. Want the prof’s help? Send your problems to [email protected].

Dear Dirichlet,

I run one of the many pubs in my village, and I’ve been thinking about adding more potato options to the menu. The problem is, I think the landlord down the road has similar plans. If only one of ...

In January, I paid a visit to MathsWorld, the recently opened maths discovery centre in London, alongside some other members of the Chalkdust team. One of the highlights of the trip was playing the two-player game Genius Square.

In Genius Square, you start with a six-by-six board and roll seven dice. These dice tell you where to place seven cylindrical blocks, for exa...

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