Eugenia Cheng | |||||||||||
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.jpg) Cheng at the Phi Beta Kappa Society (En)Lightning Talks Chicago in 2016 | |||||||||||
| 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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- ^ Eugenia, Cheng, How to bake pi : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics, Gilbert, Tavia, ISBN 9781622316687, OCLC 898167298 (originally published in the UK as Cakes, Custard and Category Theory)
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Chinese namewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Eugenia Cheng, piano". cheng.staff.shef.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ Angier, Natalie (2 May 2010). "Eugenia Cheng Makes Math a Piece of Cake". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ Klinkenberg, Brendan (May 2015). "The Perfect Recipe". WIRED. p. 24.
- ^ "SAIC – Eugenia Cheng – School of the Art Institute of Chicago". saic.edu. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ "About". Eugenia Cheng. Retrieved 28 July 2020.