Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths Eugenia Cheng Profile (2023) For many people, the word mathematics evokes bad memories from their school years. Some develop ...

Eugenia Cheng wears many hats: mathematician, pianist, professor, author and scientist-in-residence at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. With perseverance and vision, she has built a career ...

Baking is not my strong point. So when I have houseguests, I dash to a bakery to grab dessert and am often spoiled for choice. Given the huge selection of appetizing cakes and tarts, I find it ...

When we're ruminating or worrying, it's often because we have a complex problem to solve. Mathematicians solve complex problems, but do it systematically. They have a process that helps them break ...

Reading a math paper is a bit like having dinner at a nice restaurant. The entrée might taste delicious, but it doesn’t tell the full story of how it was made. Clever recipes that end up tasting funky ...

Polina Vytnova has been previously supported by EPSRC. At the beginning of my third year at university studying mathematics, I spotted an announcement. A visiting professor from Canada would be giving ...

Mathematicians like to generalize concepts into higher dimensions. Sometimes this is easy. If you want to efficiently pack squares in two dimensions, you arrange them like a checkerboard. To squeeze ...