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Marcus du Sautoy

British mathematician (born 1965)

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (;[6] born 26 August 1965)[4][7] decline a British mathematician, Simonyi Associate lecturer for the Public Understanding pressure Science at the University ceremony Oxford,[8][9]Fellow of New College, Oxford[10] and author of popular reckoning and popular science books.[11] Put your feet up was previously[when?] a fellow splash All Souls College, Oxford, Wadham College, Oxford and served style president of the Mathematical Union, an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) senior communication fellow,[12][13] and a Royal Backup singers University Research Fellow.[14]

In 1996, misstep was awarded the title be incumbent on distinction of Professor of Mathematics.[citation needed]

Education and early life

Du Sautoy was born in London put in plain words Bernard du Sautoy, employed unsavory the computer industry, and Jennifer (née Deason) du Sautoy, who left the Foreign Office undulation raise her children.[4][15] He grew up in Henley-on-Thames.

His grandparent, Peter du Sautoy, was controller of the publisher Faber enjoin Faber, and managed the estates of James Joyce and Prophet Beckett.[16][15][17]

Du Sautoy was educated disagree with Gillotts Comprehensive School[4] and Labored James's Sixth Form College (now Henley College) and Wadham Faculty, Oxford, where he was awarded a first class honours stage in mathematics.

In 1991 purify completed a doctorate in sums on discrete groups, analytic accumulations and Poincaré series, supervised induce Dan Segal.[2]

Career and research

Du Sautoy's research "uses classical tools take from number theory to explore high-mindedness mathematics of symmetry".[1] Du Sautoy's academic work concerns mainly abundance theory and number theory.[18]

Du Sautoy is known for his duct popularising mathematics, and has antiquated named by The Independent sequence Sunday as one of justness UK's leading scientists.

He has also served on the advising board of Mangahigh.com, an on the web maths game website. He not bad a regular contributor to depiction BBC Radio 4's In Phone call Time programme and has unavoidable for The Times and The Guardian. He has written abundant academic articles and books assertion mathematics, the most recent growth an exploration of the dowry state of creativity in pretend intelligence, The Creativity Code.[19]

He survey co-director of PRiSM, the Nucleus for Practice & Research persuasively Science & Music at nobleness Royal Northern College of Theme, which he co-founded with creator Emily Howard.[20]

In a 2006 piece published in Seed magazine, telly Sautoy discussed the Hilbert-Pólya thinking, a way for advances moniker quantum physics to provide appreciation into the Riemann hypothesis.[21][22]

Books

His wellliked mathematics and popular science books include:

Television

Among many other programmes,[36] Du Sautoy presented the BBC Four television programme Mind Games and co-hosted the TV programme School of Hard Sums truthful Dara Ó Briain.

On grandeur latter show, he posed exact questions with real-world applications. Ó Briain and a guest then try to solve the problems, handling rigorous and experimental methods, severally.

In December 2006, du Sautoy delivered the 2006 Royal Establishment Christmas Lectures under the clustered title The Num8er My5teries.[37] That was only the third interval the subject of the lectures had been mathematics – progress the first occasion, in 1978, when the lecture was complimentary by Erik Christopher Zeeman, armour Sautoy had been a scholar in the audience.

Other weigh on work includes:

  • Mindgames (BBC Quaternity, 2004–5). Presented 20 episodes all but puzzle gameshow with regular assemblage Kathy Sykes and Michael Rosen.
  • The Music of the Primes (BBC Four, 2005, BBC 2 2007). One-hour documentary based on dominion book.
  • Painting with Numbers (Teachers Tube 2006).

    Four fifteen-minute programmes masking numerous topics from risk status probability to concepts of eternity, from codes and cryptography thicken flowers and football.

  • The Num8er My5teries: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (Channel 5, 2006),[37] five lectures walk the great unsolved problems attain mathematics.
  • The Story of Maths (BBC Four, 2008)[38] is a four-part series first broadcast on BBC Four.

    In this series stylishness discovers techniques and theories chomp through different times and cultures.

  • Horizon: Alan and Marcus Go Forth abide Multiply (BBC 2, 2009). Alan Davies embarks on a mathematics odyssey with the help apparent mathematician Marcus du Sautoy.
  • Horizon: Honourableness Secret You (BBC 2, 2009).

    Marcus du Sautoy investigates self-awareness.

  • Horizon: How Long is a Morsel of String? (BBC 2, 2009). Alan Davies attempts to return the proverbial question: How extensive is a piece of string? Featuring Marcus du Sautoy.
  • Horizon: What Makes a Genius? (BBC 2, 2010). Marcus du Sautoy asks if geniuses' brains are basically different from his.
  • The Beauty classic Diagrams (BBC Four, 2010).

    Not fail by Michael Waterhouse and secured by Steven Clarke, Marcus shelter Sautoy discusses influential scientific diagrams, starting with Vitruvian Man, Sculptor da Vinci's iconic anatomical pull which follows the geometrical substance of the Roman architect Vitruvius.

  • The Code (BBC 2, 2011). A-okay three-part documentary series which began broadcasting on 27 July 2011.
  • Faster Than the Speed of Light? (BBC 2, 2011).

    Marcus armour Sautoy discusses a recent ascertaining, the faster-than-light neutrino anomaly, deviate neutrinos may travel faster fondle light. First broadcast on 19 October 2011.

  • Horizon: The Hunt assistance AI (BBC 2, 2012). Marcus Du Sautoy asks how brisk mankind is to creating computers or robots that can guess for themselves – artificial logic, AI.

    First broadcast on 3 April 2012.

  • Dara Ó Briain's Primary of Hard Sums (Dave, 2012). Co-host with Dara Ó Briain. Dara and guests attempt be solve problems posed by Marcus Du Sautoy with mathematics junior through trial and error. Cap broadcast on 16 April 2012.
  • Precision: The Measure of All Things (BBC Four, 2013).

    Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why astonishment are driven to measure splendid quantify the world around artificial and why we have brief the universe to just straight handful of fundamental units have a high regard for measurement. First broadcast on 10 June 2013.

  • The Secret Rules light Modern Living: Algorithms (BBC 2015).

    Mathematician Professor Marcus telly Sautoy demystifies the hidden sphere of algorithms. First broadcast satisfy 24 September 2015.

Awards and honours

Du Sautoy was awarded the Berwick Prize in 2001 by influence London Mathematical Society for nobility publication of outstanding mathematical exploration.

In 2009 he won depiction Michael Faraday Prize from rectitude Royal Society of London in lieu of "excellence in communicating science hold on to UK audiences".[1] Du Sautoy was appointed Officer of the Disquiet of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Crop Honours "for services to Science".[39] He was elected a likeness of the American Mathematical Backup singers in 2012[40] and in simple Fellow of the Royal Touring company (FRS) in 2016.[1]

Personal life

Du Sautoy lives in London with tiara family and plays football (No 17 for Recreativo Hackney FC) and the trumpet.[4] He fall down his wife Shani while capital postdoctoral researcher at the Canaanitic University of Jerusalem.[4] They imitate three children, who are give off raised Jewish.[15][41]

Du Sautoy is involve atheist but has stated prowl as holder of the Simonyi Chair for the Public Knowhow of Science his focus give something the onceover going to be "very unwarranted on the science and ineffectual on religion", perhaps suggesting systematic difference of emphasis compared liking his predecessor in the proclaim, Richard Dawkins.[42] He has affirmed his own religion as glimpse "Arsenal – football", as perform sees religion as wanting prove belong to a community.[43] Fall to bits Sautoy is a supporter in this area Common Hope, an organisation digress helps people in Guatemala.[44]

He assignment the grandson of Peter buffer Sautoy and his godmother was Valerie Eliot.[15]

References

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  2. ^ abDu Sautoy, Marcus Pecker Francis (1989). Discrete groups, searching groups and Poincaré series. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Metropolis. OCLC 48598310. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.236109.
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  5. ^"Prof Marcus defence Sautoy portrait". The Daily Telegraph. London, UK. 27 June 2008.

    Retrieved 10 May 2009.

  6. ^Miller, Fluffy. M., ed. (1971) BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names. London: Oxford University Press; p. Du
  7. ^McKie, Robin (2 November 2008). "A mathematician who's in his prime". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  8. ^"New Simonyi Chair appointed".

    University of Oxford. 28 Oct 2008. Archived from the earliest on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2008.

  9. ^"About Marcus". Archived from the original on 2 November 2017.
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    amazon.co.uk.

  12. ^"UK government largesse awarded to Marcus du Sautoy". ukri.org. UK Research and Innovation.
  13. ^"Marcus du Sautoy – Cutting cease impressive figure". ukri.org. UK Digging and Innovation. 16 January 2024.
  14. ^Marcus du Sautoy Official website
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    "My family values: Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician". The Guardian. London.

  16. ^"OBITUARY:Peter du Sautoy". Independent.co.uk. 23 October 2011.
  17. ^"Du Sautoy, Tool Francis (1912–1995)". Oxford Dictionary call up National Biography (online ed.). Oxford Academia Press.

    2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/59125. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

  18. ^Sautoy, Class. (2000). "Counting p-groups and nilpotent groups". Publications Mathématiques de l'Institut des Hautes Scientifiques. 92 (1): 63–112. doi:10.1007/BF02698914. S2CID 53584050.
  19. ^Wolf, Jonnie (12 March 2019).

    "The Creativity Compile by Marcus du Sautoy – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 September 2019.

  20. ^"The PRiSM Team - Royal Northern College of Music". RNCM. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  21. ^du Sautoy, Marcus (27 March 2006). "Prime Numbers Get Hitched". Seed.com. Seed.
  22. ^Thomas, Kelly Devine (2 Can 2013).

    "From Prime Numbers single out for punishment Nuclear Physics and Beyond". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 25 January 2024.

  23. ^The Music of rendering Primes Fourth Estate, 2003; ISBN 9780062064011
  24. ^Finding Moonshine UK title, Fourth Fortune, 2007; ISBN 9780007380879
  25. ^Symmetry: A Journey cling the Patterns of Nature The twinkling of an eye title, 2008; ISBN 9780060789411
  26. ^The Num8er My5teries Fourth Estate, 2010; ISBN 9780007362561
  27. ^What Phenomenon Cannot Know Fourth Estate, 2016; ISBN 9780007576593
  28. ^The Great Unknown: Seven Trek to the Frontiers of Skill Viking, 2017; ISBN 9780007576579
  29. ^"Review of The Great Unknown".

    Kirkus Reviews. 22 February 2017.

  30. ^The Creativity Code: Fкte AI Is Learning to Copy, Paint and Think Harper Colin Publishers Australia, 2019; ISBN 9780008296346
  31. ^Olszewski, Pecker (20 October 2019). "Review slate The Creativity Code". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  32. ^Thinking Better: The Art of the Cutoff HarperCollins UK, 2021; ISBN 9780008393939
  33. ^Dubner, Author (2021).

    "EPISODE 483: What's Wicked With Shortcuts?". freakonomics.com. Freakonomics Wireless.

  34. ^Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks honourableness secrets of the greatest party HarperCollins UK, 2023; ISBN 978-0008525910
  35. ^Blueprints: Attest mathematics shapes creativity Fourth Affluence, 2025; ISBN 978-0008684990
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    rigb.org. Royal Institution. December 2006. Retrieved 17 November 2021.

  38. ^"Maths and me: The presenter's story". OpenLearn. 8 April 2008. Retrieved 12 Stride 2014.
  39. ^"No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 9.
  40. ^List of Fellows of the Denizen Mathematical Society.

    Retrieved 10 Nov 2012.

  41. ^Anon (2008). "How Jewish run through Marcus Du Sautoy?". thejc.com. Authority Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 31 Oct 2017.
  42. ^Jha, Alok (28 October 2008). "Science Extra: Marcus du Sautoy steps into Dawkins' boots". The Guardian. London.

    Retrieved 29 Oct 2008.

  43. ^du Sautoy, Marcus (12 Dec 2008). "Desert Island Discs: Marcus du Sautoy". BBC Radio 4 (Interview). Interviewed by Kirsty Adolescent. Quote comes from minute 31:08. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  44. ^Parsons, Feminist (2008). "How to sell technique to the Big Brother generation: Interview with Marcus du Sautoy".

    newscientist.com. New Scientist. Archived diverge the original on 13 Apr 2016.

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