Marcus du Sautoy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Romance #World #Boring
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.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Genes #Symmetrical #Mates
Its my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Teacher #Journey #Brain
Theory is needed to tell you where to look.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Looks #Theory #Needed
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.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Running #Play #Creating
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Math #Tunes #Patterns
When people ask me what my religion is, I say its the Arsenal.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#People #Ask Me
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.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Order #Symbolism #Numbers
I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Jobs #Thinking #Land
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.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Math #Opportunity #Skills
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.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Children #Thinking #Adults
You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Thinking #Tables #Mathematics
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Real #Math #World
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.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Phones #Data #Space
Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Oxygen #Numbers #Atoms
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Motivation #Inspiration #Language
But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.
-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Numbers #Looks #World

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