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Marcus du Sautoy

July 2023

  • A girl tries out virtual reality technology at the Royal Society’s Summer Science exhibition.

    ‘Look back and marvel’: how will today’s science be viewed in 2123?

    As the Royal Society’s Summer Science exhibition opens we ask four experts for their predictions

August 2021

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    Self and wellbeing
    Can ‘smart thinking’ books really give you the edge?

    Trust your gut, boost your memory, de-bias your decision making… can we train our brains to perform better?

March 2019

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    Book of the day
    The Creativity Code by Marcus du Sautoy – review

    A wide-ranging study claims that, whether in mathematics or the arts, computers won’t create anything of value unless they acquire consciousness
  • Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould in I is a strange loop at the Barbican, London.

    Can AI become conscious? Bach, Escher and Gödel's 'strange loops' may have the answer

    In 1979, a cult book by Douglas Hofstadter explored consciousness via a mathematical idea found in art and music. Now, in the AI revolution, that concept could solve a vital question
  • Marcus du Sautoy … ‘We often behave too like machines.’

    Could robots make us better humans?

    Machines can already write music and beat us at games like chess and Go. But the rise of artificial intelligence should inspire hope as well as fear, says Marcus du Sautoy

October 2017

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    Science Weekly
    From zero to infinity: a brief history of counting – Science Weekly podcast

    Nicola Davis is joined by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy to explore zero, infinity and everything in between

September 2017

  • Carbon dating reveals Bakhshali manuscript is centuries older than scholars believed and is formed of multiple leaves nearly 500 years different in age. The ‘front’ page (recto) of folio 16 which dates to 224-383 AD. Filename: MS Sansk. d.14 fol. 16r Copyright to ‘Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford’.

    Much ado about nothing: ancient Indian text contains earliest zero symbol

    Exclusive: one of the greatest conceptual breakthroughs in mathematics has been traced to the Bakhshali manuscript, dating from the 3rd or 4th century

November 2016

  • Maths Marcus

    Brain waves
    Beautiful equations: the enigma of prime numbers – video

  • Magic numbers - Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

    Brain waves
    Magic numbers: can maths equations be beautiful?

October 2016

  • 4th May - OXFORD: Richard Dawkins in his home.( Photograph by Graeme Robertson)

    'Science will never know it all': Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood and others predict the future

    As the 2016 London Literature festival begins, this year exploring the theme ‘living in future times’, science and sci-fi writers share their visions of humanity’s future. Interviews by Lucy Peters

June 2016

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    What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy review – the seven edges of knowledge

  • Precision: The Measure of all Things<br>Programme Name: Precision: The Measure of all Things - TX: 10/06/2013 - Episode: n/a (No. 1) - Embargoed for publication until: n/a - Picture Shows: with the metre of the archives. Professor Marcus Du Sautoy - (C) Big Wave Productions - Photographer: Mike Cunliffe

    The week in radio: The Life Scientific; From Punk Get Funk; Between the Ears: The Impossible Book

May 2016

  • Precision: The Measure of all Things<br>Programme Name: Precision: The Measure of all Things - TX: 10/06/2013 - Episode: n/a (No. 1) - Embargoed for publication until: n/a - Picture Shows: with the metre of the archives. Professor Marcus Du Sautoy - (C) Big Wave Productions - Photographer: Mike Cunliffe

    What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy – review

    The mathematician and broadcaster happily reveals his own confusions in this refreshing study of the limits of human knowledge

September 2015

  • Marcus du Sautoy in front of maths blackboard

    TV tonight
    The Secret Rules of Modern Living; Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris review – computers can’t explain everything

    Professor Du Sautoy is right, algorithms are marvellous – but the really important things in life are beyond computing

May 2015

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    Children's books
    Lauren Child: I never know whether writing is more difficult than illustrating

    Polly and Faye from Heartlands High School library book group find out about Lauren Child’s favourite books, childhood ambitions – and why Marcus du Sautoy writes all the codes in Ruby Redfort. Plus check out the new Ruby Redfort book covers

April 2015

  • Supporters of Labour's plans say pupils studying mathematics until 18 will be better prepared for all types of employment.

    Labour plans for maths until 18 'best protection' against unemployment

    Academics and policymakers endorse plans after report finds a quarter of adults in England have maths skills of a 10-year-old

January 2015

  • Marcus du Sautoy

    How mathematicians are storytellers and numbers are the characters

    Marcus du Sautoy explains how mathematical proofs are like narratives, with plots, thrills and ‘whodunnit’ reveals

September 2013

  • Dara O'Brian

    Dara Ó Briain: 'I could have done science but I became a clown instead'

    Ó Briain's inner geek is coming to the fore as a presenter of three TV shows about maths and science. He tells us about a passion for sums, trouble with quantum physics - and why science is no laughing matter

August 2013

  • A disappearing number

    Science on stage: from profound theories to West End hits

    Marcus du Sautoy explains why the fusion of science and theatre is proving an explosive combination

November 2012

  • The Rite of Spring, Royal Ballet, 2011

    The Rest Is Noise festival
    The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music?

    In anticipation of the Southbank Centre's year-long The Rest is Noise festival, conductors, musicians and artists share their favourite classical works from a century of musical turbulence

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