Eugenia Cheng ist eine Mathematikerin, Pianistin und Dozentin, die sich leidenschaftlich dafür einsetzt, die weltweite Angst vor Mathematik zu beseitigen. Sie verwandelt ihre Begeisterung für die Mathematik gekonnt in fesselnde und zugängliche Erzählungen, die ihre Schönheit und Logik offenbaren. Mit ihren Werken möchte sie zeigen, dass Mathematik nicht nur eine abstrakte Wissenschaft ist, sondern ein mächtiges Werkzeug zum Verständnis der Welt um uns herum. Ihr Ansatz betont Geduld, Spielfreude und die Hingabe, komplexe Konzepte einem breiten Publikum nahezubringen.
In "Warum 1 + 1 nicht immer 2 ist" beleuchtet Eugenia Cheng die spannende und neugierige Seite der Mathematik, die oft von starren Regeln geprägt ist. Sie ermutigt Schüler:innen, Eltern und Lehrer:innen, Mathematik als eine Disziplin der Fragen zu sehen, die Spaß macht und zum Staunen anregt.
In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng reveals the inner workings of infinity. What happens when a new guest arrives at your infinite hotel - but you already have an infinite number of guests? How does infinity give Zeno's tortoise the edge in a paradoxical foot-race with Achilles? And can we really make an infinite number of cookies from a finite amount of cookie dough? Wielding an armoury of inventive, intuitive metaphor, Cheng draws beginners and enthusiasts alike into the heart of this mysterious, powerful concept to reveal fundamental truths about mathematics, all the way from the infinitely large down to the infinitely small.
What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen: we learn, for example, how the béchamel in a lasagna can be a lot like the number 5, and why making a good custard proves that math is easy but life is hard. Of course, it’s not all cooking; we’ll also run the New York and Chicago marathons, pay visits to Cinderella and Lewis Carroll, and even get to the bottom of a tomato’s identity as a vegetable. This is not the math of our high school classes: mathematics, Cheng shows us, is less about numbers and formulas and more about how we know, believe, and understand anything, including whether our brother took too much cake.At the heart of How to Bake Pi is Cheng’s work on category theory—a cutting-edge “mathematics of mathematics.” Cheng combines her theory work with her enthusiasm for cooking both to shed new light on the fundamentals of mathematics and to give readers a tour of a vast territory no popular book on math has explored before. Lively, funny, and clear, How to Bake Pi will dazzle the initiated while amusing and enlightening even the most hardened math-phobe.
Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract mathematical ideas down to earth using examples of social justice, current events, and everyday life - from privilege to COVID-19 to driving routes. The journey begins with the ideas and workings of abstract mathematics, after which you will gently climb toward more technical material, learning everything needed to understand category theory, and then key concepts in category theory like natural transformations, duality, and even a glimpse of ongoing research in higher-dimensional category theory. For fans of How to Bake Pi, this will help you dig deeper into mathematical concepts and build your mathematical background.
What if we could do the impossible and remove gender from the equation?
A practical, illuminating and timeless guide to thinking better, from a Royal Society Prize shortlisted mathematician - now in paperback.