Eugenia Cheng!

The author announcements are coming thick and fast now! We still have so many wonderful authors to tell you about! Today, we’re thrilled to announce that author, mathematician and concert pianist (!!) Eugenia Cheng will be joining us in April.

Eugenia Cheng is Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and won tenure at the University of Sheffield, UK. She previously taught at the universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice and holds a PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Cambridge. Alongside her research in Category Theory and undergraduate teaching her aim is to rid the world of "math phobia". Eugenia was an early pioneer of math on YouTube and her videos have been viewed over 15 million times to date. She has also assisted with mathematics in elementary, middle and high schools for 20 years. Her first popular math book "How to Bake Pi" was featured on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and "Beyond Infinity" was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2017. She also writes the Everyday Math column for the Wall Street Journal, and has completed mathematical art commissions for Hotel EMC2, 6018 North and the Lubeznik Center; her next installation will be at the Cultural Center, Chicago.. She is the founder of the Liederstube, an intimate oasis for art song based in Chicago. Her most recent book, "The Art of Logic in an Illogical World" was published in 2018, and her next one "x + y : A New formula for overcoming gender bias" is due out in 2020.