King James's Sixth Form College[4] Gillots Comprehensive School[4]
Alma mater
University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Known for
The Music of the Primes
Spouse
Shani Ram
(m. 1994)
[4]
Awards
Berwick Prize (2001)
Royal Society University Research Fellowship[when?]
Christmas lectures (2006)
Michael Faraday Prize (2009)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics Symmetry Group theory Number theory Public engagement[1]
Institutions
All Souls College, Oxford Wadham College, Oxford New College, Oxford Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesis
Discrete Groups, Analytic Groups and Poincaré Series(1989)
Doctoral advisor
Dan Segal[2][3]
Marcus du Sautoy's voice
Recorded January 2011 from the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time
Website
www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk
Marcus Peter Francis du SautoyOBE FRS (/dʊˈsoʊtɔɪ/;[6] born 26 August 1965)[4][7] is a British mathematician, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford,[8][9] Fellow of New College, Oxford[10] and author of popular mathematics and popular science books.[11] He was previously[when?] a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Wadham College, Oxford and served as president of the Mathematical Association, an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) senior media fellow,[12][13] and a Royal Society University Research Fellow.[14]
In 1996, he was awarded the title of distinction of Professor of Mathematics.[citation needed]
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^Marcus du Sautoy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ abcdeAnon (2017). "du Sautoy, Prof. Marcus Peter Francis". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.245193. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^"Prof Marcus du Sautoy portrait". The Daily Telegraph. London, UK. 27 June 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
^Miller, G. M., ed. (1971) BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names. London: Oxford University Press; p. Du
^McKie, Robin (2 November 2008). "A mathematician who's in his prime". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
^"New Simonyi Chair appointed". University of Oxford. 28 October 2008. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2008.
^"About Marcus". Archived from the original on 2 November 2017.
^"Marcus du Sautoy, OBE". New College, Oxford. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
^"Marcus Du Sautoy books on Amazon". amazon.co.uk.
^"UK government grants awarded to Marcus du Sautoy". ukri.org. UK Research and Innovation.
^"Marcus du Sautoy – Cutting an impressive figure". ukri.org. UK Research and Innovation. 16 January 2024.
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