Eugenia Cheng is Honorary Fellow in PureM athematics at the University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was educated at the University of Cambridge and did post-doctoral work at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice. Since 2007 her YouTube lectures and videos have
been viewed over a million times. A concert pianist, she also speaks French, English and Cantonese, and her mission in life is to rid the world of maths phobia. She is the author of The Art of Logic, How to Bake Pi and Beyond Infinity (all published by
Profile Books), the last of which was shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Society Science Book Prize.