How to Bake Pi

How to Bake Pi

by Eugenia Cheng
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 04/06/2015

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Möbius bagels, Euclid's flourless chocolate cake and apple pi - this is maths, but not as you know it.

In How to Bake Pi, mathematical crusader and star baker Eugenia Cheng has rustled up a batch of delicious culinary insights into everything from simple numeracy to category theory ('the mathematics of mathematics'), via Fermat, Poincaré and Riemann.


Maths is much more than simultaneous equations and pr2 : it is an incredibly powerful tool for thinking about the world around us. And once you learn how to think mathematically, you'll never think about anything - cakes, custard, bagels or doughnuts; not to mention fruit crumble, kitchen clutter and Yorkshire puddings - the same way again.


Stuffed with moreish puzzles and topped with a generous dusting of wit and charm, How to Bake Pi is a foolproof recipe for a mathematical feast.


*Previously published under the title Cakes, Custard & Category Theory***

ISBN:
9781782830825
9781782830825
Category:
Mathematics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
04-06-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Profile
Eugenia Cheng

Eugenia Cheng is Honorary Fellow in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

She was educated at the University of Cambridge and did post-doctoral work at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice. Since 2007 her YouTube lectures and videos have been viewed over a million times.

A concert pianist, she also speaks French, English and Cantonese, and her mission in life is to rid the world of maths phobia. She is the author of How to Bake Pi.

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