Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time ther…

- Marcus Du Sautoy

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that…

- Marcus Du Sautoy

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

- Marcus Du Sautoy

But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that although …

- Marcus Du Sautoy

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

- Marcus Du Sautoy

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

- Marcus Du Sautoy

If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a …

- Marcus Du Sautoy

Theory is needed to tell you where to look.

- Marcus Du Sautoy

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

- Marcus Du Sautoy