How to Bake Pi Quotes

“...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“In a way, mathematics is like an emotion, which can’t ever be described precisely in words—it’s something that happens inside an individual. What”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“At school if you write 10+4=2 you will be told that is wrong, but actually that's correct in some circumstances, such as telling the time - four hours later than 10 o'clock is indeed 2 o'clock.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“But category theory, like the New York marathon, is more about the journey and what you see along the way.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“Thinking about more and more abstract concepts is a bit like the high jump. You have to get yourself over a progressively higher and higher bar, and if nobody explains how to do it, you will keep knocking the bar off and want to give up.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“The world of math is more weird and wonderful than some people want to tell you.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“something is easy if it is attainable by logical thought processes.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“just like the smallest possible set, this is initial in the category of categories.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“You can tell this is going on in normal life when some superlative a slightly absurd number of qualifiers. For”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics