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Quotes from Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi — Eugenia Cheng

born 1976 England

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This is the point of understanding the abstract structures inside things.

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

The trouble with this is that nothing behaves logically.

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I don't believe that one should have anything without sharing it, and that includes knowledge, money, food, love...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

The work I do is totally abstract... [T]he idea is that it will help other people understand things that they can then do in the world...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I believe very strongly in helping other people understand things. There's no point knowing things if you don't help other people know...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

It... [abstract structure] is a beautiful thing, and sometimes all that matters is that it's a beautiful thing.

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I wrote this book because I love maths, and I love food... [S]adly most people love food more than they love maths...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I'd like to talk about abstract mathematics and my experience of making it... palatable to people who may have had very bad experiences of it...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I make it my business to help everybody understand these things a bit more, because... they're very misunderstood...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

The point is to help us. It's not there to cause people pain. The point of abstraction is to clear out the fluff in order... to see more clearly what's actually going on.

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eugenia Cheng (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.