Cakes, custard + category theory : easy recipes for understanding complex maths
Cheng, Eugenia2015
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Most people imagine maths is something like a slow cooker: very useful, but pretty limited in what it can do. Maths, though, isn't just a tool for solving a specific problem - and it's definitely not something to be afraid of. Whether you're a maths glutton or have forgotten how long division works (or never really knew in the first place), the chances are you've missed what really makes maths exciting. Calling on a baker's dozen of entertaining, puzzling examples and mathematically illuminating culinary analogies - including chocolate brownies, iterated Battenberg cakes, sandwich sandwiches, Yorkshire puddings and Mobius bagels - brilliant young academic and mathematical crusader Eugenia Cheng is here to tell us why we should all love maths.
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Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2015.
Collation:
xi, 291 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781781252871 (pbk)
Dewey class:
510510 CHEN
Language:
English
BRN:
2209510
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