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Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy OBE (born August 26, 1965 in London ) is a British mathematician and author of popular science non-fiction books on mathematics.

Life

Du Sautoy grew up in Henley-on-Thames and studied at Wadham College , Oxford (All Souls College, Wadham College), where he received his PhD with Dan Segal .

He is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and a Fellow of New College. In addition, since 2008 he has succeeded Richard Dawkins in the Simonyi Professorship for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. He is also a Senior Media Fellow of the EPSRC (the British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council).

Among other things, he was visiting scholar and visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn , the École normal supérieure in Paris , the Australian National University in Canberra and the Hebrew University . He was a Royal Society Research Fellow at Oxford. He is married with three children and lives in London (2008).

Du Sautoy is primarily concerned with the areas of number theory and group theory . He became famous with the book The Music of the Prime Numbers on the Riemann Hypothesis . Another book on group theory (especially the moonshine properties of the so-called monster group ) was published in 2007. He also writes for The Times , Daily Telegraph , The Independent and The Guardian and appears in television series and radio programs on the BBC , including with the four-part series The story of Maths 2008 on BBC Four . He also gives popular math lectures for audiences ranging from bankers to school children (for example, one of the lectures is Why Beckham choose the 23 shirt ). Very popular in the UK, he was named one of the country's leading scholars by the Independent on Sunday and one of the Top 100 People Under 40 in the UK by Esquire Magazine in 2004. The Telegraph called him an advocate of the "romance and mystery" of mathematics.

In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Zeta functions of groups and rings , with Fritz Grunewald ). In 2006 he gave the Royal Institution's Christmas Lecture (The Num8er My5teries). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 2016 he was elected a member of the Royal Society .

Publications

Books

  • A math mystery tour through our lives. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62192-5 .
    • Original title: The Numbers Mysteries. A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life. HarperCollins 2009. (emerged from the Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution , broadcast on Channel 5).
  • The moonlight seekers. Mathematicians unlock the secret of symmetry. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57670-6 .
    • As a paperback: The Secret of Symmetry. Mathematicians solve a riddle of nature. dtv 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-34658-0 .
    • Original title: Finding Moonshine. A Mathematician's Journey through Symmetry. Fourth Estate, London 2007.
    • US edition: Symmetry. A Journey into the Patterns of Nature. HarperCollins, New York 2008.
  • The music of the prime numbers. On the trail of the greatest puzzle in mathematics. CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-406-52320-5 .
    • As paperback: dtv 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-34299-5 .
    • Original title: The Music of the Primes. Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics. Fourth Estate, London 2003.

only english:

  • What We Cannot Know. Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge. Fourth Estate, London 2016.
  • with Luke Woodward: Zeta Functions of Groups and Rings (= Lecture Notes in Mathematics ). Springer, Berlin 2008.
  • as editor, together with Dan Segal and Aner Shalev: New Horizons in pro-p groups (= Progress in Mathematics. Vol. 184). Birkhäuser, Boston / Basel / Berlin 2000.

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Awards

Web links

Commons : Marcus du Sautoy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Prof Marcus du Sautoy portrait . The Telegraph. June 26, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2011.