The following is an excerpt from How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng. Listen to SciFri on May 8, 2015, to hear Cheng talk more about practical ...

Eugenia Cheng’s passion for theoretical mathematics is rivaled only by her love of food. In talks and in her book, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, the ...

How do you explain a topic as complicated and misunderstood as math to the general public? Professor Eugenia Cheng’s answer was to write a book about math using baking as a means of explaining fairly ...

In the cafeteria of Paint Branch Elementary School in College Park, Md., this month, nearly 80 students were completely focused and smiling as Esther Arce-Reed tossed a roll of dough into the air ...

Paula Gray stared at the bowl on the table and proclaimed, "It's alive!" to the McVay Elementary fourth- and fifth-graders seated in front of her. Gray wasn't rehearsing for some ghoulish Halloween ...

Join Peg + Cat to find math in the kitchen and everywhere else! Peg and her friends find math all around them, including in the kitchen. As you bake and decorate a delicious honey cake, look for all ...

When most people follow a recipe to bake something in the kitchen, the last thing on their minds is probably mathematical equations. But Foxboro's 12-year-old Caitlin Brightman makes a direct ...