How to Bake Pi
Subtitle: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780465051717
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: Math
pagenum: 5; label: 1
title: What Is Math?
pagenum: 7; label: 2
title: Abstraction
pagenum: 15; label: 3
title: Principles
pagenum: 45; label: 4
title: Process
pagenum: 57; label: 5
title: Generalization
pagenum: 71; label: 6
title: Internal vs. External
pagenum: 97; label: 7
title: Axiomatization
pagenum: 115; label: 8
title: What Mathematics Is
pagenum: 141; label: II
title: Category Theory
pagenum: 157; label: 9
title: What is Category Theory?
pagenum: 159; label: 10
title: Context
pagenum: 165; label: 11
title: Relationships
pagenum: 183; label: 12
title: Structure
pagenum: 205; label: 13
title: Sameness
pagenum: 221; label: 14
title: Universal Properties
pagenum: 239; label: 15
title: What Category Theory Is
pagenum: 263; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 281; title: Index
pagenum: 283