Words matter. These are the best Marcus du Sautoy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.
I’m obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.
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 playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
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 good mate.
I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador’s job.
It’s important to me that no one can say I’m not pumping out high-level research.
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world.
You know, I’m not terribly fast at my times tables, because that’s not what I think mathematics is about.
When people ask me what my religion is, I say it’s the Arsenal.
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.
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 there.
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 you won’t be able to do.
