Skip to content

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...

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

Another quote →

More quotes by Eugenia Cheng

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

How to Bake Pi: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths (2015)

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)

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...

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

All Eugenia Cheng quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Eugenia Cheng (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.