Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy FRS OBE d s o t , is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, and Wadham College, he is now a Fellow of New College. He was previously President of the Mathematical Association, an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and a Royal Society University Research Fellow.

Du Sautoy was born in London, grew up in HenleyonThames and was educated at local comprehensives Gillotts School and King Jamess College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he obtained first class honours in Mathematics. He went on to complete his DPhil in mathematics. He currently lives in London with his wife and three children and plays football and the trumpet.

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