How To Bake π: An Edible Exploration Of The Mathematics Of Mathematics [AZW3]

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E-Book Overview

"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"--;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.

E-Book Information

  • Series: How to Bake Pi

  • Year: 2016;2015

  • City: New York

  • Pages: 288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

  • Language: English

  • Identifier: 9780465097678,0465097677

  • Org File Size: 8,551,184

  • Extension: azw3

  • Tags: Categories (Mathematics.) Categories (Mathematics) Mathematics Metamathematics Popular works Mathematics -- Popular works

  • Toc: 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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