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 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 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

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

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

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

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