Eugenia Cheng Dispels Fear of Math and Flying

The Guardian recently interviewed SAIC's Scientist-in-Residence Dr. Eugenia Cheng (Liberal Arts) about her fascination with infinity and the power of food as an analogy for teaching mathematics. Cheng told the Guardian, “I realized that whenever an anecdote involved food, my students perked up. One day, one of my students called out 'Explain some maths using Oreo cookies', and I realized they represented something we were going to do in the lecture that day.” Cheng, the author of How to Bake Pi, has also recently released Beyond Infinity: An Expedition into the Outer Limits of Mathematics and an article titled "The Logic of Our Fear of Flying" in the Wall Street Journal. Read the whole interview with Cheng at the Guardian.