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A uniquely accessible introduction to abstract mathematics and category theory written by popular science author of How to Bake Pi.
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Dr. Eugenia Cheng is world-renowned as both a researcher in category theory and an expositor of mathematics. She has written several popular mathematics books including How to Bake Pi (2015), The Art of Logic in an Illogical World (2017), and two children's books. She also writes the 'Everyday Math' column for the Wall Street Journal. She is Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches abstract mathematics to art students. She holds a Ph.D. in category theory from the University of Cambridge, and won tenure in pure mathematics at the University of Sheffield. You can follow her @DrEugeniaCheng.
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