Banishing 'maths phobia' with Dr Eugenia Cheng

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 11:55 a.m.

b'Eugenia Cheng is a mathematician, concert pianist... and baker. She\'s dedicated her career to tackling the fear of maths that she thinks is preventing talented people from studying the subject. Eugenia tells Anne-Marie how her discovery that her students would pay more attention if lectures involved food led to her publishing a best-selling book combining baking with mathematics. And she describes how playing complex piano pieces connects with her love of numbers. They also discuss Eugenia\'s new book X+Y: A Mathematician\'s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender, which is out now. You can hear her music on her website eugeniacheng.com


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