Eugenia Cheng

eBook, PDF

Joy of Abstraction (eBook, PDF)

An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life

Beschreibung

A uniquely accessible introduction to abstract mathematics and category theory written by popular science author of How to Bake Pi.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.9MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Dr. Eugenia Cheng is world-renowned as both a researcher in category theory and an expositor of mathematics. She has written several popular mathematics books including How to Bake Pi (2015), The Art of Logic in an Illogical World (2017), and two children's books. She also writes the 'Everyday Math' column for the Wall Street Journal. She is Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches abstract mathematics to art students. She holds a Ph.D. in category theory from the University of Cambridge, and won tenure in pure mathematics at the University of Sheffield. You can follow her @DrEugeniaCheng.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108861014
• Artikelnr.: 70912776

Rezensionen

'This book is an educational tour de force that presents mathematical thinking as a right-brained activity. Most 'left brain/right brain' education-talk is at best a crude metaphor; but by putting the main focus on the process of (mathematical) abstraction, Eugenia Cheng supplies the reader (whatever their 'brain-type') with the mental tools to make that distinction precise and potentially useful. The book takes the reader along in small steps; but make no mistake, this is a major intellectual journey. Starting not with numbers, but everyday experiences, it develops what is regarded as a very advanced branch of abstract mathematics (category theory, though Cheng really uses this as a proxy for mathematical thinking generally). This is not watered-down math; it's the real thing. And it challenges the reader to think-deeply at times. We 'left-brainers' can learn plenty from it too.' Keith Devlin, Stanford University (Emeritus), author of The Joy of Sets