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Marcus du Sautoy is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the public understanding of science and a professor of mathematics at the University Of Oxford Mathematical Institute.

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Maths and me: The presenter's storyProduction team

By Professor Marcus du Sautoy (Guest)

23 September 2008

As he prepares to introduce BBC Four's Story Of Maths, Marcus DuSautoy explains how he came to love numbers - and where it took him  Read more : Maths and me: The presenter's story

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Patterns and LandscapesProduction team

By Professor Marcus du Sautoy (Guest)

15 September 2005

Marcus du Sautoy delves into the work of Gauss and Riemann, the two mathematicians who started to discover the order behind prime numbers  Read more : Patterns and Landscapes

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OU on the BBC: Music of the Primes - Welcome From Marcus du SautoyProduction team

By Professor Marcus du Sautoy (Guest)

15 September 2005

What's the obsession with prime numbers? Why make a programme about them? Marcus DuSautoy explains all by way of welcome.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Music of the Primes - Welcome From Marcus du Sautoy

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Talking primesBBC

By Professor Marcus du Sautoy (Guest), Professor Robin Wilson (The Open University), Quentin Cooper (Guest)

02 December 2004

What is so magical about prime numbers - and what makes them musical? The Material World wanted to find out...  Read more : Talking primes

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Maths and me: The presenter's story

Comment posted by zz628273

09 Oct 2010

Just watched Episode one of The Story of Maths and was rather surprised/disappointed/shocked to hear the presenter state without any references/evidence that the Muslims destroyed the Library. As far... Read more : Maths and me: The presenter's story

Maths and me: The presenter's story

Comment posted by sm5sic

24 Mar 2010

To "starloser" The problem was x(x+6)=55, the longer side was six units taller than the shorter side. The Babylonians cut away a 3 unit wide slice and displaced it to the remaining longer side of the... Read more : Maths and me: The presenter's story

Maths and me: The presenter's story

Comment posted by Tazeen hasan

05 Jan 2010

What about Kharzemi and algorithm Mr. Mathematician. There is no place for the Arab scientist from Damascus and the whole Muslim world who are now identified to be the pioneers of Copernicus.... Read more : Maths and me: The presenter's story

Maths and me: The presenter's story

Comment posted by starloser

03 Jan 2010

I just watched the first ep of this series. I enjoyed it, very interesting! But I couldn't figuer out how did the Babylonian solve the x(x+3)=55 question. x should be 6 something right? what are they... Read more : Maths and me: The presenter's story

Maths and me: The presenter's story

Comment posted by halina73

25 Jul 2009

halina73 has started a thread discussing The presenter's story. Read more : Maths and me: The presenter's story

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Marcus du Sautoy is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the public understanding of science and a professor of mathematics at the University Of Oxford Mathematical Institute. He's a fellow of New College.
He has written widely about maths, and presented The Story of Maths and The Music of The Primes for The Open University and the BBC.

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