After Dr. Eugenia Cheng earned her doctorate in pure mathematics, she made it her mission to spread the beauty and power of math to a wider audience. Now she’s the Scientist-in-Residence at the ...

This March 14, Short Wave is celebrating π... and pie! We do that with the help of mathematician Eugenia Cheng, Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the ...

A mathematician turns gender into a math problem. Rethinking Gender With Mathematician Eugenia Cheng This rebroadcast originally aired on September 16, 2020. A mathematician turns gender into a math ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Is Math Real? by Eugenia Cheng. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email ...

Math isn’t just about following rules. It’s about figuring out why they exist, and if there’s a way to break them. The following is an excerpt from Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to ...

There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...

The now-familiar square of little black boxes added a second dimension to bar codes—and holds exponentially more data. When is a knot not a knot? When it is the “unknot,” a topological term that ...

A mathematician turns gender into a math problem. Rethinking Gender With Mathematician Eugenia Cheng This rebroadcast originally aired on September 16, 2020. A mathematician turns gender into a math ...

“Math might seem like it’s about getting the right answers, but really it’s about the process of discovering,” according to this invigorating philosophical take on the field. Mathematician Cheng (The ...

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This rebroadcast originally aired on September 16, 2020. A mathematician turns gender into a math problem. We hear how math can help us rethink ingrained conceptions of gender. The Guardian: “x + y by ...