How to Bake Pi, by Eugenia Cheng

[Susan]

I read this for week 15 (2016), who, what, which, where or how in the title. I heard an interview with the author on NPR, and the premise sounded interesting, using recipes and food to teach math to undergraduates, but it didn't quite live up to its promise. (The NPR interview was so good, though, that I sat in my car in a parking lot to hear the end of it after I'd gotten where I was going.) Every chapter started with a recipe, but only a couple of the chapters used them or even referred to them. The writing was really uneven, too, sometimes chatting about travel or her neighborhood, but then abruptly changing to in-class lecturing. It was an odd read.