Cakes, Custard and Category Theory

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• harry8 · Jan 4, 2017 · Recommends

  If you genuinely don't know much maths, maybe Eugenia Cheng's "How to Bake Pi" also published as "Cakes, Custard and Category Theory" I enjoyed it, it's not a text, there are no exercises. Popular overview of the subject, including a first half that mentions category theory only in passing. Brave to even attempt such a book and I…

  on “Basic Category Theory” ↗
• escherplex · Jun 6, 2015 · Mentions

  …UK copy of 'How to Bake Pi' at http://www.bookdepository.com/ (best price, free shipping, and they take paypal). Plus it turns out that Eugenia Cheng just released another book in UK on June 4 called 'Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths' which seemed interesting so that was ordered as well. Shipping time to US is listed as 5 days. Plus if you need a .pdf of Feynman's favorite math book (Calculus…

  on “Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths” ↗
• 1001101 · Apr 27, 2017 · Mentions

  Euginia Cheng, a category theorist, has written Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths, and How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics.

  on “Category Theory, Syntactically (2016)” ↗
• jonnybgood · Jun 6, 2015 · Mentions

  How to bake pi and cakes, custard, and category theory are the same book.

  on “Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths” ↗
• mcguire · Nov 12, 2015 · Critical

  Cakes, Custard and Category Theory/How to Bake Pi is very similar to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: it has not much of anything to do with the subjects mentioned in the title. You will find some recipes, sort of, and you'll…

  on “Cakes, Custard, Categories and Colbert” ↗