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Eugenia Cheng / Baking Pi

The magical power of math has no bounds. We can create new shapes— even new worlds—just by changing our approach.

Click above to listen to Part 1 of Math’s Paths, featuring Eugenia Cheng, Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, tenured at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield, and author of “How to Bake Pi,” using cooking as a metaphor for how mathematics can be used to create new things.

Math’s Paths:

Part 1: Eugenia Cheng / Baking Pi

Part 2: Shankar Venkataramani / Squishy Robots

Part 3: Steve Strogatz / Compelling Calculus

Part 4: Daniel Finkel / Love for Math

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