Bake Infinite Pie with X + Y - Couverture rigide

Ren, Amber; Cheng, Eugenia

 
9780759556867: Bake Infinite Pie with X + Y

Synopsis

Aspiring bakers will embrace this charming picture book about baking pie by using simple math, from one of the world's most creative and celebrated mathematicians.

X + Y are dreaming of baking infinite pie...

But they don't know if infinite pie is real.

With the help of quirky and uber-smart Aunt Z, a whole lot of flour and butter, X and Y will learn that by using math they can bake their way to success!

This charming and tasty story from mathematician and author of How to Bake Pi, Eugenia Cheng, reassures young readers that math doesn't have to be scary-especially when paired with pie!

Additional back matter includes: a letter from Eugenia encouraging readers not to be intimidated by math, explanations of the math concepts explored in the book, and a recipe for Banana Butterscotch Pie!

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À propos de l'auteur

Eugenia Cheng is Honorary Fellow in PureM athematics at the University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was educated at the University of Cambridge and did post-doctoral work at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice. Since 2007 her YouTube lectures and videos have
been viewed over a million times. A concert pianist, she also speaks French, English and Cantonese, and her mission in life is to rid the world of maths phobia. She is the author of The Art of Logic, How to Bake Pi and Beyond Infinity (all published by
Profile Books), the last of which was shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Society Science Book Prize.

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