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How to bake [pi] : a...
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How to bake [pi] : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics / Eugenia Cheng.
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Cheng, Eugenia, author.
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2016.
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Mathematics -- Popular works.
Mathematics.
Metamathematics.
Categories (Mathematics)
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9780465097678 (paperback) :
0465097677 (paperback)
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288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents:
Math. What is math? ; Abstraction ; Principles ; Process ; Generalization ; Internal vs. external ; Axiomatization ; What mathematics is -- Category theory. What is category theory? ; Context ; Relationships ; Structure ; Sameness ; Universal properties ; What category theory is.
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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"--
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