How to bake π, by Cheng

It may not have won a Pulitzer, but Cheng's book reminds me of nothing quite so much as Gödel, Escher, Bach . It's committed to its gimmick, it's fun to read, it's self-involved, its success as an argument is incomplete, there's some math but there could have been more. GEB had better editing. Just as I was most interested in the incompleteness theorem bits of GEB, How to bake π is ostensibly…