Marcus du Sautoy
- Writer
- Actor
Brainbox Marcus De Saytoy is the Simonyi Professor of the Public
Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His passion lies in
teaching difficult mathematical concepts and making them palatable for
the general public. He has been very influential in popularising
maths--showing how it affects every aspect of our lives from simple
counting to any form of trade and even the homes in which we live. In
recognition of his work he won the Michael Faraday Prize from the Royal
Society of London for "excellence in communicating science to UK
audiences". His academic work concerns mainly group theory and number
theory. He is also the President of the Mathematical Association and
previously an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and a Royal Society University
Research Fellow.
Marcus was born in August 1965 in London and grew up in
Henley-on-Thames. His intellectual journey began at local
comprehensives Gillott's School and King James's College (VI Form, now
Henley College) and Wadham College, Oxford where he obtained first
class honours in Mathematics. He went on to complete his DPhil in
mathematics.
Marcus is the author of The Music of the Primes - a genuinely
bestselling maths book. He also writes for The Guardian and Telegraph,
presents films for BBC's Horizon and regularly pops up as a guest on
Radio 4's In Our Time.
He delivered the 2006 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures under the
collective title The Num8er My5teries. This was only the third time the
subject of the lectures had been mathematics--on the first occasion in
1978, when the lecture was delivered by Erik Christopher Zeeman, du
Sautoy had been a schoolboy in the audience. The venue for the 2006
Christmas Lectures was the Institution of Engineering and Technology's
headquarters at Savoy Place, London.
Throughout his distinguished career Marcus has received a number of
accolades. He has been named by The Independent on Sunday as one of the
UK's leading scientists and, in 2001, he won the Berwick Prize of the
London Mathematical Society, which is awarded every two years to reward
the best mathematical research by a mathematician under forty.
Du Sautoy is also on the advisory board of Mangahigh.com--an online
maths game website and has appeared on Channel 4 News and on BBC Radio
4's Today programme promoting the service and is a regular contributor
to the same network's In Our Time. He also appears on the TV series
School of Hard Sums with Dara Ó Briain.
He is also a supporter of Common Hope, an organisation that helps
people in Guatemala.
Marcus is an unrivaled speaker on mathematics and is represented in
London, England by Useful Talent.
Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His passion lies in
teaching difficult mathematical concepts and making them palatable for
the general public. He has been very influential in popularising
maths--showing how it affects every aspect of our lives from simple
counting to any form of trade and even the homes in which we live. In
recognition of his work he won the Michael Faraday Prize from the Royal
Society of London for "excellence in communicating science to UK
audiences". His academic work concerns mainly group theory and number
theory. He is also the President of the Mathematical Association and
previously an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and a Royal Society University
Research Fellow.
Marcus was born in August 1965 in London and grew up in
Henley-on-Thames. His intellectual journey began at local
comprehensives Gillott's School and King James's College (VI Form, now
Henley College) and Wadham College, Oxford where he obtained first
class honours in Mathematics. He went on to complete his DPhil in
mathematics.
Marcus is the author of The Music of the Primes - a genuinely
bestselling maths book. He also writes for The Guardian and Telegraph,
presents films for BBC's Horizon and regularly pops up as a guest on
Radio 4's In Our Time.
He delivered the 2006 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures under the
collective title The Num8er My5teries. This was only the third time the
subject of the lectures had been mathematics--on the first occasion in
1978, when the lecture was delivered by Erik Christopher Zeeman, du
Sautoy had been a schoolboy in the audience. The venue for the 2006
Christmas Lectures was the Institution of Engineering and Technology's
headquarters at Savoy Place, London.
Throughout his distinguished career Marcus has received a number of
accolades. He has been named by The Independent on Sunday as one of the
UK's leading scientists and, in 2001, he won the Berwick Prize of the
London Mathematical Society, which is awarded every two years to reward
the best mathematical research by a mathematician under forty.
Du Sautoy is also on the advisory board of Mangahigh.com--an online
maths game website and has appeared on Channel 4 News and on BBC Radio
4's Today programme promoting the service and is a regular contributor
to the same network's In Our Time. He also appears on the TV series
School of Hard Sums with Dara Ó Briain.
He is also a supporter of Common Hope, an organisation that helps
people in Guatemala.
Marcus is an unrivaled speaker on mathematics and is represented in
London, England by Useful Talent.