How to bake [symbol for pi] : easy recipes for understanding complex maths / Eugenia Cheng.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Profile Books, 2016.Description: xi, 291 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781781252888 (pbk.) :
- How to bake pi
- Cakes, custard and category theory
- 510 23
- QA93
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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General | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Main | 510 CHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | r14887f0499 |
Originally published: as Cakes, custard and category theory. 2015.
Includes index.
Möbius bagels, Euclid's flourless chocolate cake and apple pi - this is maths, but not as you know it. Eugenia Cheng has rustled up a batch of delicious culinary insights into everything from simple numeracy to category theory ('the mathematics of mathematics'), via Fermat, Poincaré and Riemann.
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