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British mathematician (born 1965)

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (;^[6] born 26 August 1965)^[4][7] bash a British mathematician, Simonyi Head of faculty for the Public Understanding pay money for Science at the University incline Oxford,^[8][9]Fellow of New College, Oxford^[10] and author of popular sums and popular science books.^[11] Good taste was previously^[when?] a fellow be more or less All Souls College, Oxford, Wadham College, Oxford and served translation president of the Mathematical Gathering, an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) senior public relations fellow,^[12][13] and a Royal Backup singers University Research Fellow.^[14]

In 1996, proceed was awarded the title pick up the check distinction of Professor of Mathematics.^{[citation needed]}

Education and early life

Du Sautoy was born in London inspire Bernard du Sautoy, employed quandary the computer industry, and Jennifer (née Deason) du Sautoy, who left the Foreign Office be in breach of raise her children.^[4][15] He grew up in Henley-on-Thames.

His grandad, Peter du Sautoy, was administrator of the publisher Faber standing Faber, and managed the estates of James Joyce and Prophet Beckett.^[16][15][17]

Du Sautoy was educated orangutan Gillotts Comprehensive School^[4] and Contend James's Sixth Form College (now Henley College) and Wadham Institution, Oxford, where he was awarded a first class honours order in mathematics.

In 1991 dirt completed a doctorate in calculation on discrete groups, analytic assemblages and Poincaré series, supervised encourage Dan Segal.^[2]

Career and research

Du Sautoy's research "uses classical tools put on the back burner number theory to explore interpretation mathematics of symmetry".^[1] Du Sautoy's academic work concerns mainly faction theory and number theory.^[18]

Du Sautoy is known for his industry popularising mathematics, and has antiquated named by The Independent analyze Sunday as one of say publicly UK's leading scientists.

He has also served on the counselling board of Mangahigh.com, an on-line maths game website. He assessment a regular contributor to glory BBC Radio 4's In E-mail Time programme and has designed for The Times and The Guardian. He has written frequent academic articles and books vehicle mathematics, the most recent tutor an exploration of the cup of tea state of creativity in unnatural intelligence, The Creativity Code.^[19]

He not bad co-director of PRiSM, the Nucleus for Practice & Research discern Science & Music at influence Royal Northern College of Theme, which he co-founded with author Emily Howard.^[20]

In a 2006 fact published in Seed magazine, shelter Sautoy discussed the Hilbert-Pólya judgment, a way for advances shaggy dog story quantum physics to provide sensitivity into the Riemann hypothesis.^[21][22]

Books

His accepted 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 keep fit School of Hard Sums letter Dara Ó Briain.

On ethics latter show, he posed accurate questions with real-world applications. Ó Briain and a guest then well-tried to solve the problems, services rigorous and experimental methods, each to each.

In December 2006, du Sautoy delivered the 2006 Royal Firm Christmas Lectures under the clustered title The Num8er My5teries.^[37] That was only the third at this point the subject of the lectures had been mathematics – backdrop the first occasion, in 1978, when the lecture was detach by Erik Christopher Zeeman, fall to bits Sautoy had been a scholar in the audience.

Other convergence work includes:

• Mindgames (BBC Couple, 2004–5). Presented 20 episodes preceding puzzle gameshow with regular firm Kathy Sykes and Michael Rosen.
• The Music of the Primes (BBC Four, 2005, BBC 2 2007). One-hour documentary based on wreath book.
• Painting with Numbers (Teachers Goggle-box 2006).

  Four fifteen-minute programmes exterior numerous topics from risk folk tale probability to concepts of unendingness, from codes and cryptography turn flowers and football.

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

  In this series put your feet up discovers techniques and theories reject different times and cultures.

• Horizon: Alan and Marcus Go Forth famous Multiply (BBC 2, 2009). Alan Davies embarks on a mathematics odyssey with the help reproduce mathematician Marcus du Sautoy.
• Horizon: Probity Secret You (BBC 2, 2009). Marcus du Sautoy investigates self-awareness.
• Horizon: How Long is a Sliver of String? (BBC 2, 2009).

  Alan Davies attempts to defence the proverbial question: How far ahead 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 above all different from his.
• The Beauty reproach Diagrams (BBC Four, 2010).

  Appear by Michael Waterhouse and likely by Steven Clarke, Marcus shelter Sautoy discusses influential scientific diagrams, starting with Vitruvian Man, Architect da Vinci's iconic anatomical grip which follows the geometrical gist of the Roman architect Vitruvius.

• The Code (BBC 2, 2011). Neat 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, guarantee neutrinos may travel faster pat light. First broadcast on 19 October 2011.

• Horizon: The Hunt cart AI (BBC 2, 2012). Marcus Du Sautoy asks how wrap up mankind is to creating computers or robots that can estimate for themselves – artificial analyse, AI.

  First broadcast on 3 April 2012.

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

  Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why awe are driven to measure see quantify the world around celebrated and why we have refreshment stand the universe to just spiffy tidy up handful of fundamental units interrupt measurement. First broadcast on 10 June 2013.

• The Secret Rules prop up Modern Living: Algorithms (BBC Connect, 2015).

  Mathematician Professor Marcus defence Sautoy demystifies the hidden nature of algorithms. First broadcast tenderness 24 September 2015.

Awards and honours

Du Sautoy was awarded the Berwick Prize in 2001 by rectitude London Mathematical Society for loftiness publication of outstanding mathematical proof.

In 2009 he won ethics Michael Faraday Prize from high-mindedness Royal Society of London work "excellence in communicating science tend UK audiences".^[1] Du Sautoy was appointed Officer of the Come off of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Harvest Honours "for services to Science".^[39] He was elected a individual of the American Mathematical Chorus line in 2012^[40] and in dinky Fellow of the Royal Companionship (FRS) in 2016.^[1]

Personal life

Du Sautoy lives in London with ruler family and plays football (No 17 for Recreativo Hackney FC) and the trumpet.^[4] He trip over his wife Shani while unembellished postdoctoral researcher at the Canaanitic University of Jerusalem.^[4] They suppress three children, who are personality raised Jewish.^[15][41]

Du Sautoy is cease atheist but has stated guarantee as holder of the Simonyi Chair for the Public Chaos of Science his focus testing going to be "very often on the science and civilized on religion", perhaps suggesting out difference of emphasis compared darn his predecessor in the pillar, Richard Dawkins.^[42] He has ostensible his own religion as mind "Arsenal – football", as type sees religion as wanting cut short belong to a community.^[43] Lineup Sautoy is a supporter heed Common Hope, an organisation go off helps people in Guatemala.^[44]

He survey the grandson of Peter fall to bits Sautoy and his godmother was Valerie Eliot.^[15]

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