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Mini-Course, Math For America

April 21 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

  • « AWM Panel, Rutgers University Chapter (online)
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Date:
April 21
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Event Category:
Other
Website:
https://www.mathforamerica.org/
  • « AWM Panel, Rutgers University Chapter (online)
  • Mini-Course, Math For America »

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A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

Why are men in charge? After years in the male-dominated field of mathematics and in the female-dominated field of art, Eugenia Cheng has heard the question many times. In x + y, Cheng argues that her mathematical specialty — category theory — reveals why. Category theory deals more with context, relationships, and nuanced versions of equality than with intrinsic characteristics. Category theory also emphasizes dimensionality: much as a cube can cast a square or diamond shadow, depending on your perspective, so too do gender politics appear to change with how we examine them. Because society often rewards traits that it associates with males, such as competitiveness, we treat the problems those traits can create as male. But putting competitive women in charge will leave many unjust relationships in place. If we want real change, we need to transform the contexts in which we all exist, and not simply who we think we are.

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The Art of Logic:
How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn’t

Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the reality behind the rhetoric. In The Art of Logic, Eugenia Cheng shows how mathematical logic can help us see things more clearly – and know when politicians and companies are trying to mislead us.

First Cheng explains how to use black-and-white logic to illuminate the world around us, giving us new insight into thorny political questions like public healthcare, Black Lives Matter and Brexit. Then she explains how logic and emotions, used side-by-side, can help us not only to be more rational individuals, but also to live more thoughtfully.

Clear-sighted, revelatory and filled with useful real-life examples of logic and illogic at work, The Art of Logic is an essential guide to decoding modern life.

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Also by Eugenia

How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

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 how the béchamel in a lasagna can be a lot like the number five, and why making a good custard proves that math is easy but life is hard.

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Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics

Imagine something small enough to fit in your head but too large to fit in the world-or even the universe. What would you call it? And what would it be? How about…infinity? In Beyond Infinity Eugenia Cheng answers this question by taking readers on a startling journey from math at its most elemental to its loftiest abstractions.

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About Eugenia

Dr Eugenia Cheng is Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Alongside her research in Category Theory and undergraduate teaching her aim is to rid the world of “math phobia”.  Her first popular math book, How to Bake Pi, was published by Basic Books in 2015 to widespread acclaim. Her next book, Beyond Infinity, was published in 2017. Eugenia is also math columnist for the Wall Street Journal, a concert pianist and founder of the Liederstube.

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Upcoming Talks

  • AWM Panel, Rutgers University Chapter (online)

    April 19 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

  • Talk, ACEMS (online)

    May 5 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  • Talk, Charleston Festival (Available until May 16th)

    May 16

  • Talk, Keynote Speaker – OAME Virtual Conference

    May 21 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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