From the Financial Times, a cute questionnaire posed by Hester Lacey that Eugenia Cheng, category-theory mathematician and musician, answers thoughtfully:

• What is your earliest memory?
• Who was or still is your mentor?
• How fit are you?
• Tell me about an animal you have loved.
• Risk or caution, which has defined your life more?
• What trait do you find most irritating in others?
• What trait do you find most irritating in yourself?
• What drives you on?
• Do you believe in an afterlife?
• Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?
• Name your favourite river.
• What would you have done differently?

(cf Cakes, Custard, and Category Theory (2016-02-14), Ingressive vs Congressive (2017-07-18), Eugenia Cheng on Thinking (2017-12-30), ...) - ^z - 2023-01-16