How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? 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. Of course, its not all about cooking well also run the New York and Chicago marathons, take a closer look at St. Pauls Cathedral, pay visits to Cinderella and Lewis Carroll, and even get to the bottom of why we think of a tomato as a vegetable. At the heart of it all is Chengs work on category theory, a cutting-edge mathematics of mathematics, that is about figuring out how math works.