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How long does it take to read How to Bake Pi?

Eugenia Cheng

How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng takes about 5 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 23 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2015. 294 pages, about 80,850 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 59 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 23 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 22 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

If mathematics is the queen of science, this book explains why category theory is the queen of mathematics.

Subjects: abstraction, category theory, Metamathematics, Mathematics, Categories (Mathematics), Popular works

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