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Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"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.
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Language
English
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A mathematician and scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago helps readers explore the concept of infinity through unique concepts including chessboards, a chicken-sandwich sandwich and the creation of infinite cookies from an infinite dough ball.--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eugenia Cheng can't help thinking like a mathematician. She also can't help thinking like a woman. After all, she's both. But there seems like there must be a clear tension. She had to learn to be a mathematician, for one thing, and--in the popular imagination, anyway--mathematics seems very 'male,' the domain of individualistic geniuses with terrible social skills, pursuing university tenure and fame. Those traits, however, aren't really what it...
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Español
Description
Pensar con todo el rigor de la lógica es como hacer ejercicio a gran altitud: es una práctica demandante, tal vez agotadora, que luego permite enfrentar los retos cotidianos con enorme facilidad. Eugenia Cheng será tu entrenadora personal en el arte de la lógica, esa forma de razonar que permite construir complejos argumentos paso a pasito, sobre lo sublime y lo trivial, hasta alcanzar momentos de verdadera iluminación. Con chispa y ambición...
Author
Language
English
Description
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,...
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