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.

Thursday, 12 June 2008

New Scientist

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Grand Designs: Symmetry's hidden depths An article in the New Scientist about the award of the Abel Prize 2008 to John Thompson and Jac...
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Samuel Johnson Longlist

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Finding Moonshine makes the longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008. Having been a judge myself on this prize a few years...
Friday, 11 April 2008

The 19th Step

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I have been involved in the last three weeks in creating a performance piece in collaboration with composer Dorothy Ker, Choreographer Carol...
Sunday, 16 March 2008

pg 69 test

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There is an interesting blog which asks authors to comment on whether page 69 is representative of their book. Here is link to the page 69 t...
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Friday, 14 March 2008

US publication

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The 11th of March saw the US publication of the book. Finding Moonshine has rather strong connotations in America so my US publishers went f...
Friday, 7 March 2008

Want a group named after you?

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People have stars named after them, craters on the moon, even comets...but how about having a symmetrical object in hyperspace named after y...
Thursday, 6 March 2008

YouTube

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Here are some of my favourite math moments on YouTube. Enjoy! The Numberwang code "There are numbers everywhere Charles". Mitchel...
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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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