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

— Eugenia Cheng Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

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Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.

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

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The trouble with this is that nothing behaves logically.

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

Math, unfortunately is presented in this very ingressive way, despite the fact that when you get to the research level, it's very congressive.

Eugenia Cheng: To Infinity - and Beyond (2017)

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

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