How to Bake Pi

How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
	First edition
Author	Eugenia Cheng
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Mathematics
Genre	Popular mathematics
Publisher	Basic Books
Publication date	2015
Pages	288
ISBN	978-0-465-05171-7

How to Bake Pi is a popular mathematics book by Eugenia Cheng published in 2015. Each chapter of the book begins with a recipe for a dessert, to illustrate the methods and principles of mathematics and how they relate to one another. The book is an explanation of the foundations and architecture of Category theory. Category theory is a branch of mathematics that formalizes mathematical structure and its concepts. Cheng received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and is currently a senior lecturer of pure mathematics at the University of Sheffield^[1] and a senior lecturer in liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.^[2]

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^ University of Sheffield. "Dr Eugenia Cheng". maths.dept.shef.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
^ "SAIC - Eugenia Cheng - School of the Art Institute of Chicago". saic.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-12.

Bellos, Alex (June 12, 2015). "'How to Bake Pi,' by Eugenia Cheng". New York Times. New York City. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
"'How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics' by Eugenia Cheng". Kirkus Reviews. March 15, 2015. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
Glass, Darren (May 1, 2015). "How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved June 13, 2015.

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[sheffieldmaths-1] University of Sheffield. "Dr Eugenia Cheng". maths.dept.shef.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-08-12.

[chicago-2] "SAIC - Eugenia Cheng - School of the Art Institute of Chicago". saic.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-12.

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