Marcus Du Sautoy        

Marcus du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. He is Senior Media Fellow at the EPSRC. He has been named by the Independent on Sunday as one of the UK’s leading scientists. In 2001 he won the prestigious Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society awarded every two years to reward the best mathematical research made by a mathematician under 40. In 2004 Esquire Magazine chose him as one of the 100 most influential people under 40 in Britain and in 2008 he was included in the prestigious directory Who’s Who. He is author of numerous academic articles and books on mathematics. He has been a visiting Professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Australian National University in Canberra.

Marcus du Sautoy is author of the best-selling popular mathematics book ”The Music of the Primes” published by Fourth Estate in 2003 and translated into 10 languages. It has won two major prizes in Italy and Germany for the best popular science book of the year. His new book “Finding Moonshine: a mathematician’s journey through symmetry” is also published by Fourth Estate and appeared in February 2008. Marcus du Sautoy writes for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and the Guardian and is frequently asked for comment on BBC radio and television. He has written and presented several series for radio including 5 Shapes for BBC radio 4 in 2004 and Maths and Music for the Essay on BBC radio 3 in 2007. He is also presenter of BBC4’s TV game show Mind Games, for which he has been nominated for the Royal Society of Television’s Best Newcomer to a Network award. In 2005 he presented a one hour documentary for BBC4 and BBC2 based on his book The Music of the Primes. He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2006 entitled THE NUM8ER MY5TERIES, broadcast on Channel Five.

He is currently writing and presenting a four part landmark series for the BBC called The Story of Maths which will be broadcast in Autumn 2008. His presentations on mathematics, which include “Why Beckham Chose the 23 Shirt”, have played to a wide range of audiences: from theatre directors to bankers, from diplomats to prison inmates. Marcus du Sautoy plays the trumpet and football. Like Beckham he also plays in a prime number shirt, no 17, for Recreativo FC based in the Hackney Marshes. Born in 1965, he lives in London with his wife, three children and cat Freddie Ljungberg.


Symmetry

Marcus du Sautoy - Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry

Wednesday 18th June 2008, Science Oxford.


Papers
  • The Zeta Functions of sl2(Z),  Forum Mathematicum  12, 197-221 (2000).
  • Where the Wild Things Are: Ramification Groups and the Nottingham Group, with I. Fesenko, in ``New Horizons in Pro-p Groups'' edited by du Sautoy, Segal, and Shalev, Progress in Mathematics 184 Birkhauser.
  • Zeta Functions of Groups, with D. Segal, in ``New Horizons in Pro-p Groups'' edited by du Sautoy, Segal, and Shalev, Progress in Mathematics 184 Birkhauser.
  • New Horizons in Pro-p Groups, edited with D. Segal and A. Shalev, Progress in Mathematics 184 Birkhauser.
  • Analytic Properties of Zeta Functions and Subgroup Growth, with Fritz Grunewald, Annals of Math, 152, no 3, 793-833 (2000).
  • Counting P-Groups and Nilpotent Groups. Inst. Hautes Études Scientifiques, Publ. Math. 92, 63-112 (2000).
  • Book Review of An Introduction to the Theory of Local Zeta Functions, by Jun-ichi Igusa, the Bulletin of the LMS, 33, 494-495 (2001).
  • A Nilpotent Group and its Elliptic Curve: Non-uniformity of Local Zeta Functions of Groups, Israel J. of Math 126 (2001), 269-288.
  • The Zeta Function of sl2 and Resolution of Singularities, with Gareth Taylor. Transactions of the Cambridge Phil. Soc. 132 (2002), 57-73.
  • Zeta Functions of Groups: Euler Products and Soluble Groups, Proc. of the Edinburgh Math. Soc. 45 (2002), 149-154.
  • Zeta Functions of Groups and Their Ghost Zeta Functions, with Fritz Grunewald, Amer. J. of Math 124 (2002) 1-48.
  • Counting Subgroups in Nilpotent Groups and Points on Elliptic Curves, J. Reine Angew. Math. 549 (2002) 1-21.
  • Polycyclic Groups, Analytic Groups and Algebraic Groups. Proc. of the LMS. 85 (2002) 62-92.
  • Zeta Functions of Groups: The Quest for Order Versus the Flight From Ennui. Groups St Andrews 2001 – in Oxford, Volume 1, CUP 2003.

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