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How to bake : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics
- Title
- How to bake : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics / Eugenia Cheng.
- How to bake [pi] : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics / Eugenia Cheng.
- Author
- Cheng, Eugenia
- Publication
- New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
- ©2015
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-8043 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 288 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Publisher description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Includes recipes.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Math -- What is math? ; Abstraction ; Principles ; Process ; Generalization ; Internal vs. external ; Axiomatization ; What mathematics is -- Pt. II. Category theory -- What is category theory? ; Context ; Relationships ; Structure ; Sameness ; Universal properties ; What category theory is.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-8043
- ISBN
- 9780465051717
- 0465051715
- 9780465097678
- 0465097677
- LCCN
- 2014957937
- OCLC
- 893455136
- Author
- Cheng, Eugenia, author.
- Title
- How to bake [pi] : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics / Eugenia Cheng.
- Alternate Script for Title
- How to bake : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics / Eugenia Cheng.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-8043