| Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy | |
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| Born | 26
August 1965 [1][2] London, England |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Segal |
| Notable awards | Berwick Prize (2001) |
Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy OBE (born in London, 26 August 1965) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, and Wadham College, he is now a Fellow of New College. He is currently an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and was previously a Royal Society University Research Fellow. His academic work concerns mainly group theory and number theory. In October 2008, he was appointed to the Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science.
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He grew up in Henley-on-Thames and was educated 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.
In March, 2006, his article Prime Numbers Get Hitched was published on Seed Magazine's website.[3] In it he explained how the number 42, mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as the answer to everything, is related to the Riemann zeta function. He has also published an article in the scientific magazine New Scientist.
In December 2006 du Sautoy 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. Du Sautoy was an early critic of An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything.[4][5]
Du Sautoy is known for his work popularizing mathematics. He has been named by The Independent on Sunday as one of the UK's leading scientists. 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. He writes for The Times and The Guardian and has appeared several times on BBC Radio 4 and television. He presented the television programme, Mind Games, on BBC Four. He has also written numerous academic articles and books on mathematics.[6] He is succeeding Richard Dawkins in the Chair.[7][8] du Sautoy is 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. Du Sautoy was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.[9]
Du Sautoy currently lives in London with his wife and three children. He plays football and the trumpet. He is a supporter of Common Hope, an organisation that helps people in Guatemala.[10][11] He is an atheist, describing his own "religion" as being "Arsenal - football."[12]
   | The Music of the Primes website - The music of primes |
| | University of Oxford - Dr Marcus du Sautoy - Dr. Marcus du Sautoy |
| | Prime Numbers get Hitched - Prime Numbers Get Hitched § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM |
| | Marcus du Sautoy's mathematical site - Prof. Marcus du Sautoy |
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