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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 21 quotes by Marcus du Sautoy Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy /dʉˈsoʊtɔɪ/, OBE (born 26 August 1965) is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, and Wadham College, he is now a Fellow of New College. He is President of the Mathematical Association. He was previously an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and a Royal Society University Research Fellow. His academic... Read full biography of Marcus du Sautoy → 1 2 Ctrl → Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth... → 0 Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world. 0 The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. 0 My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you... → 0 Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was... → 0 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... → 0 If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even... → 0 It's 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... → 0 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... → 0 When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal. 0 You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about. 0 I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job. 0 Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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