Eugenia Cheng
Eugenia Cheng | |||||||||||
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Cheng at Phi Beta Kappa society (En)Lightning Talks Chicago in 2016 | |||||||||||
| Born | Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng 1 August 1976 Hampshire, England | ||||||||||
| Education | Roedean School | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) | ||||||||||
| Known for | How to Bake Pi | ||||||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||||||
| Fields | Category theory Popular mathematics | ||||||||||
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| Thesis | Higher-dimensional category theory : opetopic foundations (2002) | ||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Hyland | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄭樂雋 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 郑乐隽 | ||||||||||
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| Website | eugeniacheng | ||||||||||
Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician, educator and concert pianist. Her mathematical interests include higher category theory, and as a pianist she specialises in lieder and art song. She is also known for explaining mathematics to non-mathematicians to combat math phobia, often using analogies with food and baking. Cheng is a scientist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.