How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world. In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which...

How one powerful concept reveals the biggest (and smallest) mathematical truths
How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way,...

What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen: we learn, for example, how the béchamel in a lasagna can be a lot like the number 5, and why making a good custard proves that math is easy but life is hard. Of course,...

Pensar con todo el rigor de la lógica es como hacer ejercicio a gran altitud: es una práctica demandante, tal vez agotadora, que luego permite enfrentar los retos cotidianos con enorme facilidad. Eugenia Cheng será tu entrenadora personal en el arte de la lógica, esa forma de razonar que permite construir complejos argumentos paso a pasito, sobre lo sublime y lo trivial, hasta alcanzar momentos de verdadera iluminación. Con chispa y ambición...