Eugenia Cheng | |||||||||||
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Born | Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng 1 August 1976[2] Hampshire, England | ||||||||||
Education | Roedean School | ||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) | ||||||||||
Known for | How to Bake Pi[3] | ||||||||||
Scientific career | |||||||||||
Fields | Category theory Popular mathematics | ||||||||||
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Thesis | Higher-dimensional category theory : opetopic foundations (2002) | ||||||||||
Doctoral advisor | Martin Hyland[1] | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 鄭樂雋[4] | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 郑乐隽 | ||||||||||
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Website | eugeniacheng |
Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician, educator and concert pianist. Her mathematical interests include higher category theory, and as a pianist she specialises in lieder and art song.[5] She is also known for explaining mathematics to non-mathematicians to combat math phobia, often using analogies with food and baking.[6] Cheng is a scientist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[7][8][9]
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