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Eugenia Cheng
How to Bake ϖ
Profile Books, 2015
Something about my own cognitive ability has always frustrated me. Well, being mediocre at chess after half a century playing the game frustrates me, but perhaps that failure to improve much is linked with my main irritation. I have a PhD and a very high IQ (tested and confirmed at ages 11 and 21), so why don’t I get maths, or “math,” as Americans prefer? (more…)