Marcus du Sautoy
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Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician, born in London in 1965.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 26 August 1965, London (opens wiqqi.app)
- Role: Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, University of Oxford; Fellow of New College (opens wiqqi.app)
- Research: Group theory and number theory; doctorate in 1991 supervised by Dan Segal (opens wiqqi.app)
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4 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
- Site: marcusdusautoy.com (opens marcusdusautoy.com)
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marcus-du-sautoy (opens uk.linkedin.com)
- YouTube: Marcus du Sautoy on YouTube (opens www.youtube.com)
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9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Teaching school subjects in isolation, rather than showing their connections, is a failure of education systems. (opens korrents.com)
“It is one of the tragedies of our education system that we treat subjects in isolation.”
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Science fiction ideas are increasingly becoming tomorrow's science fact. (opens korrents.com)
“Of course as we go forward, adventures in science fiction are increasingly becoming the next ideas for science fact.”
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What counts as mathematics is an aesthetic selection among true statements about numbers, not every such statement itself. (opens korrents.com)
“Mathematics does not consist of true statements about numbers just as music is not simply a sequence of notes.”
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Teaching school subjects in isolation, rather than showing their connections, is a failure of education systems. (opens korrents.com)
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6 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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A Mathematician's Apology (opens rcmnd.app)
“Yes, it really appealed to me when I read it as a kid because I was interested in music, I played the trumpet, I loved doing theatre, and somehow GH Hardy in that book revealed to me how much mathematics is a creative…”
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A Disappearing Number (opens rcmnd.app)
“And Complicite was really determined – which is why I like this play – not just to talk about mathematicians as crazy characters but also to embed the ideas of mathematics in the structure of the play, so they worked…”
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One, Two, Three...Infinity (opens rcmnd.app)
“Yes, one of the things that really excited me when I read this – again when I was at school – was this idea of infinity. Gamow was a physicist first of all: Mathematics is the language of physics and you can see that…”
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A Mathematician's Apology (opens rcmnd.app)