Konstellate is a quarterly magazine of mathematics — long-form, edited, illustrated, and (where it helps) interactive. We started it because we wanted to read it. This is what it is for.
“We wanted a magazine where the figures move, the proofs are honest about where they came from, and the writing earns the math.”
Mathematics has more good writers than any moment in its history, and far more good readers, and yet the publication that sits between the two — long-form, edited, illustrated, addressed to a reader who wants to understand rather than be informed — is in unusually short supply. Quanta is wonderful; AMS Notices is essential. Both leave a gap. Konstellate sits in it.
Each issue collects twelve to sixteen pieces — features, problems, in-the-wild reports, interviews, a few reviews — and at least six interactive figures the reader can grab, perturb, and break. We publish quarterly. We pay our contributors. We charge nothing to read.
Editorial values we apply to every piece. Each one is a small bet about how mathematics is best communicated to people who already love it.
Konstellate is published by an editorial co-operative. Every editor writes; every editor edits. We rotate roles by issue.
Editor-in-chief
Topologist at ETH Zürich. Co-founded Konstellate to make the magazines she wished had existed when she was eighteen.
Senior editor · Features
Writes on geometry and combinatorics. Previously: Quanta Magazine, AMS Notices.
Senior editor · Problems
Olympiad veteran. Maintains the problem archive and is on a one-woman mission to publish a beautiful proof of Pythagoras every issue.
Visualisations
Builds the interactive figures. Trained in physics, currently embedded in mathematical art and shader notation.
In the Wild
Applied mathematician. Chases mathematics into airports, coral reefs, and election-night dashboards.
Copy & design
Type-setter and copy-editor. Cares deeply about hanging punctuation and somewhat less deeply about hyphens.