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Marcus du Sautoy
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Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics. Author of Thinking Better (Fourth Estate). bio.to/Blueprints
simonyi.ox.ac.uk
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    Mar 24, 2025
    Introducing my new book BLUEPRINTS: how mathematics shapes creativity @4thEstateBooks Out on 8th May
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    Jan 7, 2023
    Dear Simon Pegg, Maths is a hugely creative subject that underpins many creative industries: architecture, animation, special effects, music. To equate mathematicians with a drone army of date entering robots shows why a maths for artists 16-18 course would be a great idea.
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    Sep 14, 2019
    When I spotted @kimjoyskitchen recipe @guardian for mango tart with geometric fruit pieces, the mathematician in me couldn’t resist doing my own symmetrical version
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    Aug 26, 2020
    A mutant algorithm?!? This was a classic old school algorithm written in a top down manner by humans with no AI or machine learning. The algorithm did not mutate. It implemented a set of rules decided by humans. Blame the humans not the algorithm.
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    Boris Johnson blames 'mutant algorithm' for exams fiasco
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    Jun 28, 2022
    June 28 Have the Perfect Day! 6=1+2+3 28=1+2+4+7+14 Celebrate with mathematical cakes!
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    Jan 7, 2023
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    Of course I never said that Rishi Sinai was proposing such a course. My wishful thinking. A similar course at Central St Martins for students was over subscribed every year by creative artists realising post 18 that maths helped their practice.
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    Jan 7, 2023
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    If you’d like to find out how maths helps anyone think better then why not check out my latest book Thinking Better: the art of the shortcut. My manifesto for the maths we should be teaching
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    Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut
    How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently? This is your shortcut to the art of the...
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    Jan 7, 2023
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    I’m all for an anti Tory rant but interestingly this was part of the Labour Party manifesto in 2015 which I helped campaign for. Of course it might be why Labour lost!
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    Apr 18, 2023
    My two pennies worth @thetimes on the Rishi Sunak proposal to study maths to 18
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    Sep 3, 2017
    Always an exciting moment when I get the first copy of my new book
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    Dec 2, 2021
    When I published The Creativity Code in 2019 I still hadn’t seen a truly exciting application of machine learning to my own subject of mathematics. Today that has changed. The announcement by DeepMind shows how powerful a collaborator AI can be.
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    Dec 1, 2021
    A new paper in @Nature details how machine learning was used to make significant new discoveries in pure mathematics by guiding the intuition of some of the world’s top mathematicians from @Sydney_Uni and @OxUniMaths: dpmd.ai/maths-blog Paper: dpmd.ai/nature-maths 1/
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    Jan 7, 2023
    Replying to @eamonno64
    Sometimes it takes a bit of time to get a new mathematical idea. I see students frieze when they first encounter something but when they come back to it a year later things are much clearer. I often think retaking a year in maths would be better than pressing on to new material
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    Sep 12, 2023
    Making a film for TV with a Japanese crew on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture about counting points on elliptic curves. Once upon a time the BBC would make such programmes.
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    Jul 15, 2016
    Amazing moment this afternoon @royalsociety to sign the same book that Newton signed to become a Fellow
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