Author record · 2015 to 2023

Eugenia Cheng: Awards and Best-of Lists

Eugenia Cheng has won 1 award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes (2023) for Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths, with 1 shortlist or finalist place and 3 year-end list picks in our archive.

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2023Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest TruthsLos Angeles Times Book Prizes source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Science & Technology
2020X+Y: A Mathematician's Manifesto For Rethinking GenderNPR Books We Love source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Books We Love
2017Beyond InfinityRoyal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize source (opens in a new tab)Shortlist · Science Book
2015How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of MathematicsBooklist Editors' Choice source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Adult Books: Science
2015How to Bake π: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of MathematicsPublishers Weekly Best Books source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Nonfiction

Books

  1. Beyond Infinity1 source · 2017
  2. How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics1 source · 2015
  3. How to Bake π: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics1 source · 2015
  4. Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths1 source · 2023
  5. X+Y: A Mathematician's Manifesto For Rethinking Gender1 source · 2020