Eugenia Cheng is a mathematician and concert pianist. She is Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and won tenure at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has previously taught at the universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice and holds a PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Cambridge. Alongside her research in Category Theory and undergraduate teaching her aim is to rid the world of "maths phobia". Eugenia was an early pioneer of maths on YouTube and her videos have been viewed over 10 million times to date. Her first popular maths book "How to Bake Pi" was featured on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and "Beyond Infinity" was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2017. She also writes the Everyday Math column for the Wall Street Journal, and recently completely her first mathematical art commission, for Hotel EMC2 in Chicago. She is the founder of the Liederstube, an intimate oasis for art song based in Chicago. Her latest book, 'The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't" was published in 2018.
Talks I've Given
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Keynote: Conveying the Power of Abstraction
Featuring Dr Eugenia Cheng
Abstract mathematics is sometimes thought of being very far removed from real life, perhaps something that people think about with their head in the clouds as opposed to the sort of applied maths and science do when people are thinking about "reality". And yet, many of you who work in...
abstract-mathematics abstraction scalax functional-programming haskell scala -
Keynote: Category Theory in Life
Featuring Dr Eugenia Cheng
Category theory can be thought of as being "very abstract algebra". It is thought of as "too abstract" by some people, and as "abstract nonsense" by some others. In this talk, you will discover that while it is abstract, it is far from being nonsense. Eugenia will...
haskell haskellx category-theory
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