From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8895 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjf Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Major New York Times article about Eugenia Cheng! Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 08:57:54 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: pjf NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462291402 530 80.91.229.3 (3 May 2016 16:03:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:03:22 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue May 03 18:03:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.7.22]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1axcmy-00035T-Jn for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 18:03:08 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:36724) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1axcmG-0001xq-CN; Tue, 03 May 2016 13:02:24 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axcm6-0003Bs-6M for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Tue, 03 May 2016 13:02:14 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8895 Archived-At: Using the top 3/4 of the the first page of the New York Times's weekly Science Section: EUGENIA CHENG MAKES MATH A PIECE OF CAKE It can also be a piece of pie, or custard ??? so says a professor and author who spreads the magic of numbers through dessert recipes. by Natalie Angier May 2, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/science/eugenia-cheng-math-how-to-bake-pi.html?_r=0 She is a theoretical mathematician who works in a rarefied field called category theory, which is so abstract that ???even some pure mathematicians think it goes too far,??? Dr. Cheng said. At the same time, Dr. Cheng is winning fame as a math popularizer, convinced that the pleasures of math can be conveyed to the legions of numbers-averse humanities majors still recovering from high school algebra. She has been featured on shows like ???Late Night With Stephen Colbert,??? and her online math tutorials have been viewed more than a million times. The hardcover edition of her first book, ???How to Bake ??: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics,??? has sold about 25,000 copies in this country and been translated into six languages, a surprising hit for a text visibly if judiciously seasoned with numbers, graphs and equations. The book is being released in paperback this month. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]