Chalkdust, Issue 13

On this page, you can find out what we think of recent books, films, games, and anything else vaguely mathematical. Full reviews of many of the items featured here can be found at d chalkdustmagazine.com

Only Connect This was a thrilling final, with fiendish questions and some excellent quizzing. It was also lovely to be able to support long-time friend of Chalkdust, Katie Steckles, and her team. What comes next in this sequence:

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Formalized Music

Stars of the Lid Great lockdown album.

Iannis Xenakis Formalised Music is a manual, of sorts, to create a machine that writes music. It can be quite frustrating to decipher Xenakis’s writing, but his ideas on on the mathematics of composition remain influential and are worth exploring.

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Stars of the Lid and their Refinement of the Decline Perhaps the only thing better than The Tired Sounds of...

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Poems and Paradoxes Kyle Evans & Hana Ayoob A really fun collection of mathematical titbits and poems with delightful artwork.

Klax It’s no longer the nineties, but there’s still time for Klax.

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Apollo 13

Virtual meetings

Brilliant. The 13th numbered thing is always the best.

There’s no √−𝟣 in MS Teams. I just wish i wasn’t on it all the time.

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