Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng

00:16 – Welcome to “Shopping is Hard; Let’s Do Math!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”; Eugenia’s Introduction

Books:

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


• Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics

YouTube Channels:

• TheCatsters


• TheMathsters

Articles:

• Eugenia Cheng Makes Math a Piece of Cake


• Everyday Math

01:54 – Getting Into Math: Is math useful? Is that the point?

A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart

20:17 – Category Theory

Textbooks:

• Categories for the Working Mathematician


• Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides)


• Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
  

38:17 – Changing the Terminology Around Gender to Focus on Character Traits Instead: Congressive and Ingressive Behavior

The Prisoner’s Dilemma

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Special Guest: Dr. Eugenia Cheng.

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