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Eugenia Cheng


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Nonfiction, Science, Children's


Eugenia Cheng is a mathematician, pianist, and lecturer. She is passionate about ridding the world of math-phobia. Eugenia’s first book, How to Bake Pi, has been an international success. Molly’s Mathematical Adventure is her first children's book. ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 6,885 ratings · 1,142 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
How to Bake Pi: An Edible E...
3.64 avg rating — 1,972 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions
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The Art of Logic in an Illo...
3.48 avg rating — 2,030 ratings — published 2018 — 21 editions
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Beyond Infinity: An Expedit...
3.81 avg rating — 940 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions
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x + y: A Mathematician's Ma...
3.71 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions
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Is Maths Real? How Simple Q...
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The Joy of Abstraction: An ...
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Bake Infinite Pie with X + Y
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Molly and the Mathematical ...
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Unequal: The Maths of When ...
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“...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
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“In a way, mathematics is like an emotion, which can’t ever be described precisely in words—it’s something that happens inside an individual. What”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
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“Mathematics is the logical study of how logical things work.”
― Eugenia Cheng, The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
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