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Catriona Agg's geometry puzzles | Tangente
Catriona Agg (until recently also known as Catriona Shearer) is a British mathematics teacher from Cambridge.

Marc-Antoine Mathieu: comics and dimensions | Tangente
Julius Corentin Acquefacques, prisoner of dreams, is perhaps the comic-book hero most often drawn into the world of mathematical ideas. Let's venture into the extraordinary world of his creator, Marc-Antoine Mathieu.

Bridge: Suit Combinations and Probability | Tangente
Bridge (and its ancestor, whist) is, along with chess, one of the two most celebrated games in the West, as the quotation below from Edgar Allan Poe attests — no doubt too flattering. Probability is often invoked in deciding which strategy to adopt.

Italo Calvino's mathematical writing | Tangente
Widely read in Italian schools and universities, Italo Calvino is a major author, renowned for the literary quality of his work. He was also an avid lover of mathematics and readily drew on it in his writing, particularly to structure his texts, as one would expect of a committed Oulipian.
