1. Education and early life

2. Career and research
    Mathematical research  Popularisation of mathematics  In voice  In print  On TV  Publications  Television work  Awards and honours 

3. Personal life

4. References

• Berwick Prize (2001)
• Royal Society University Research Fellowship{{when|date=December 2017}}
• Michael Faraday Prize (2009)}}

Education and early life

Du Sautoy was born in London, grew up in Henley-on-Thames and was educated at Gillotts Comprehensive School^[1] and King James's Sixth Form College (now Henley College) and Wadham College, Oxford, where he was awarded a first class honours degree in Mathematics. He went on to complete a doctorate in mathematics on discrete groups, analytic groups and Poincaré series in 1991 supervised by Dan Segal.^[10]

Career and research

Mathematical research

According to the Royal Society, his research "uses classical tools from number theory to explore the mathematics of symmetry".^[16] Du Sautoy's academic work concerns mainly group theory and number theory.^[11] The former discipline is the study of symmetries and the latter discipline the study of the integers, particularly regarding factorization and the primes.

Popularisation of mathematics

Du Sautoy is known for his work popularising mathematics, and has been named by The Independent on Sunday as one of the UK's leading scientists. He is also on the advisory board of Mangahigh.com (an online maths game website).

In voice

Du Sautoy has promoted BBC Radio 4's Today programme and is a regular contributor to the same network's In Our Time.

In December 2006, du Sautoy delivered the 2006 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures under the collective title The Num8er My5teries.^[18] 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.

In print

Du Sautoy typically writes for The Times and The Guardian. Du Sautoy has also written numerous academic articles and books on mathematics, the most recent being a print adaptation of his Christmas Lectures (see {{section link||In voice}}), also titled The Num8er My5teries.

In a 2006 article published in Seed magazine, du Sautoy discussed the Hilbert-Pólya conjecture: a way for advances in quantum physics to provide insight into the Riemann hypothesis.^[12]

On TV

Du Sautoy presented the BBC Four television programme, Mind Games, and co-hosts the TV series School of Hard Sums with Dara Ó Briain. On the latter show, he poses three mathematical questions with real-world application. Ó Briain and a guest then try to solve the problems, using rigorous and experimental methods, respectively.

Du Sautoy has also appeared on Channel 4 News.

Publications

• The Music of the Primes (Fourth Estate, 2003, {{ISBN|9780062064011}})
• Finding Moonshine (UK title, Fourth Estate, 2007, {{ISBN|9780007380879}})
• Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature (US title, 2008, {{ISBN|9780060789411}})
• The Num8er My5teries: A Mathematical Odyssey Through Everyday Life (Fourth Estate, 2010, {{ISBN|9780007362561}})
• What We Cannot Know (Fourth Estate, 2016, {{ISBN|9780007576593}})
• The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science (Viking, 2017, {{ISBN|9780007576579}})
• The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think (Harper Colin Publishers Australia, 2019, {{ISBN|9780008296346}})

Television work

• Mindgames (BBC Four, 2004-5). Presented 20 episodes of puzzle gameshow with regular guests Kathy Sykes and Michael Rosen.
• The Music of the Primes (BBC Four, 2005, BBC 2 2007). One hour documentary based on his book.
• Painting with Numbers (Teachers TV 2006). Four fifteen-minute programmes covering numerous topics from risk and probability to concepts of infinity, from codes and cryptography to flowers and football.
• The Num8er My5teries: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (Channel 5, 2006),^[13] five Lectures about the great unsolved problems of mathematics.
• The Story of Maths (BBC Four, 2008)^[14] is a four-part series first broadcast on BBC Four. In this series he discovers techniques and theories from different times and cultures.
• Horizon: Alan and Marcus Go Forth and Multiply (BBC 2, 2009). Alan Davies embarks on a maths odyssey with the help of mathematician Marcus du Sautoy.
• Horizon: The Secret You (BBC 2, 2009). Marcus du Sautoy investigates self-awareness.
• Horizon: How Long is a Piece of String? (BBC 2, 2009). Alan Davies attempts to answer the proverbial question: how long 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 fundamentally different from his.
• The Beauty of Diagrams (BBC Four, 2010). Produced by Michael Waterhouse and directed by Steven Clarke, Marcus du Sautoy discusses influential scientific diagrams, starting with Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci's iconic anatomical drawing which follows the geometrical ideas of the Roman architect Vitruvius.
• The Code (BBC 2, 2011). A three-part documentary series which began broadcasting on 27 July 2011.
• Faster Than the Speed of Light? (BBC 2, 2011). Marcus du Sautoy discusses the recent discovery, the faster-than-light neutrino anomaly, that neutrinos may travel faster than light. First broadcast on 19 October 2011.
• Horizon: The Hunt for AI (BBC 2, 2012). Marcus Du Sautoy asks how close mankind is to creating computers or robots that can think for themselves – artificial intelligence, AI. First broadcast on 3 April 2012.
• Dara Ó Briain's School of Hard Sums (Dave, 2012). Co-host with Dara Ó Briain. Dara and guests attempt to solve problems posed by Marcus Du Sautoy with mathematics or through trial-and-error. First broadcast on 16 April 2012.
• The Measure of All Things (BBC Four, 2013) Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement. First broadcast on 10 June 2013.
• The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms (BBC Four, 2015) Mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms. First broadcast on 24 September 2015.

Awards and honours

Du Sautoy was awarded the Berwick Prize in 2001 by the London Mathematical Society for the publication of outstanding mathematical research. In 2009 he won the Michael Faraday Prize from the Royal Society of London for "excellence in communicating science to UK audiences".{{cn|date=October 2017}} Du Sautoy was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours "for services to Science".^[15] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society^[16] and in 2016 a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[17]

Personal life

Du Sautoy lives in London with his family and plays football (No 17 for Recreativo Hackney FC) and the trumpet.^[1] He met his wife Shani while a postdoctoral researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[1] Together they have three children, a son Tomer and adopted twin daughters Magaly and Ina, who are being raised Jewish.^[18]{{unreliable source|reason=No author is named for this article|date=October 2017}}

Du Sautoy is an atheist but has stated that as holder of the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science his focus is going to be "very much on the science and less on religion," perhaps suggesting a difference of emphasis compared to his predecessor in the post, Professor Richard Dawkins.^[19] He has described his own religion as being "Arsenal – football", as he sees religion as wanting to belong to a community.^[20]

Du Sautoy is a supporter of Common Hope, an organisation that helps people in Guatemala.^[21]

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