Eugenia Cheng  Follow @DrEugeniaCheng

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, UK. 

My research is in category theory, mostly higher-dimensional. Some non-technical introductions to my field can be found further down this page.

Maths on YouTube! The Mathsters 10 minute lectures for A-level students or first year undergraduates The Catsters 10 minute lectures on Category Theory delivered by "The Catsters" aka Eugenia Cheng and Simon Willerton

The Past
Until September 2007 I was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné, the Department of Mathematics at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
From 2004 to 2006 I was an L. E. Dickson Instructor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago.
From 2001 to 2004 I was a research fellow in pure mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Before arriving at Newnham College, I was at Gonville and Caius College, where I did my Ph.D., Part III and undergraduate degree.

Also on this page... Higher-Dimensional Categories: an illustrated guide book Research papers Things for non-specialists Teaching Conferences Notes on installing Alpine to read email Me playing the piano

• The Mathsters - YouTube channel of short maths videos aimed at sixth formers interested in doing maths at university, and other interested adults
  

• Higher-dimensional category theory: the architecture of mathematics (pdf) - an introduction to my field and my research as of November 2001. Written for non-specialists in any discipline (originally as part of a job application), it is very non-technical and includes various flights of fancy and copious analogies.  

• Mathematics and lego: the untold story (pdf) - approximate text from a seminar I gave at Newnham College in November 2001, aimed at students and researchers of all levels and all disciplines.  This is not a formally presented document, and it doesn't include the slides, so some of it is a bit hard to imagine.  Also, a radio interview I did on the subject in December 2012, on BBC Radio 4's "More or less".
  

• Mathematical morality - a talk I gave at the Cambridge University Society for the Philosophy of Mathematics, and in a modified version later at the University of Chicago
  

• Is mathematics easy? 

• Are lectures a waste of time?

• Build your own 5-associahedron!

• Make your own Eckmann-Hilton clock!

• How to write proofs: a quick guide

Part III Category Theory

Resources for the course I taught in Cambridge.  

Michaelmas 2001
Michaelmas 2002

Here is a video of me performing the Ballade no. 3 by Chopin
at the concert in memory of my piano teacher, Christine Pembridge
on March 12th 2012.

For more about me playing the piano, click here.

Chopin Ballade no. 3