Finding Moonshine

"Finding Moonshine: a mathematician's journey through symmetry" is a new book by the author of The Music of the Primes. In twelve chapters, one for each month of his working year, Marcus du Sautoy explores the nature of symmetry and gives an unparalleled insight into the working life of a mathematician.

Saturday, 17 March 2018

UK Space Design Competition Finals 2018

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It was great to join all the students this weekend who took part in the UK Space Design Competition finals for 2018. Th...
Wednesday, 13 September 2017

UK Space Design Competition

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 I am very excited to be on board the inter-stellar expedition that is The UK Space Design Competition as patron. The challenge of navigat...
Thursday, 7 July 2016

Messiaen, Maths and Me.

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My relationship with Messiaen began one Saturday when I was seventeen years old. Saturdays for me as kid always meant music. A minibu...

Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time

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Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time premiered on 15 January 1941 in the prisoner-of-war camp where the composer was interned duri...
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Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy FRS is Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. He is the author of Finding Moonshine, What We Cannot Know, The Number Mysteries and The Music of the Primes (all published by Fourth Estate). He has presented numerous radio and television programmes for the BBC. He writes for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and The Times. More details can be found at www.marcusdusautoy.com
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