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




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Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ReinH"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rein Henrichs</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Eugenia Cheng: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/DrEugeniaCheng"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@DrEugeniaCheng</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://eugeniacheng.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">eugeniacheng.com</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to “Shopping is Hard; Let’s Do Math!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”; Eugenia’s Introduction</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Books:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465097677/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0465097677&amp;linkId=0d495c591e20d50802c3fa80ef30775d"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465094813/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0465094813&amp;linkId=1c8d256e9484319b7631615ccc857fd1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>YouTube Channels:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCatsters/featured"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheCatsters</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheMathsters</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Articles:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/science/eugenia-cheng-math-how-to-bake-pi.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eugenia Cheng Makes Math a Piece of Cake</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/types/everyday-math"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyday Math</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Want to help make us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag,<br> </b><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">and bring us to conferences near you?<br> </b><b>Support us via </b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to </b><a href="mailto:mandy@greaterthancode.com"><b>mandy@greaterthancode.com</b></a><b>.</b></p> <p><b>01:54</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Getting Into Math: Is math useful? Is that the point?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart</span></a></p> <p><b>20:17 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Category Theory</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Textbooks:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0387984038/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0387984038&amp;linkId=fb86951beaddc97589ea491f060216ce"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Categories for the Working Mathematician</span></a></p> <p style=""></p>