You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.
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
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 power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. - Marcus Du Sautoy
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
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
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…
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune wit… - Marcus Du Sautoy
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune wit…
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
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.
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
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 …
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world. - Marcus Du Sautoy
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
Its my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scra… - Marcus Du Sautoy
Its my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scra…
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
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 …
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