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Theory is needed to tell you where to look.
Marcus Du Sautoy / Professor
Looks
Needed
Theory
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When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.
Marcus Du Sautoy / Professor
Arsenal
Ask Me
People
Religion Me People
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It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.
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Pumping
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Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
Marcus Du Sautoy / Professor
Math
Mathematics
Real
Real World
World
Things
World Real Place
Place
The Real World
Where
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Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers
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Atoms
Numbers
Oxygen
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I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.
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Jobs
Land
Thinking
Ambassador
Foreign Land
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The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
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Geometry
Inspiration
Language
Mathematics
Motivation
One Thing
Another
Often
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You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.
Marcus Du Sautoy / Professor
Mathematics
Tables
Thinking
Terribly
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Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
Marcus Du Sautoy / Professor
World See Way
Artists
World Looking Way
Mathematicians
Realise
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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.
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Adults
Children
Thinking
Effect
Primary
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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 / Professor
Beauty
Boring
Extraordinary
Mathematical
Romance
Spending
Spending Time
World
Beauty Time World
Place
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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 / Professor
Genes
Good Upbringing
Symmetrical
Upbringing
Mate
Sending
Sign
Therefore
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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.
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Opportunity
Math
Skills
Wonderful
Maths
Opportunities
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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 / Professor
Space
Data
Mathematician
Mobile
Phones
Phone
Efficiently
Huge Amount
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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 / Professor
Math
Patterns
Tunes
Poetry Me Feel
Maths
Tune
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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 / Professor
Conscious
Mathematical
Messages
Numbers
Order
Symbolism
Attuned
Mozart
Obviously
Pick
Whenever
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We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.
Marcus Du Sautoy / Professor
Debate
Economy
Explaining
Informing
Social Problems
Subjects
Mathematicians
Political Debate
Scientists
Solving
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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 / Professor
Chaotic
Messy
Numbers
Patterns
Shapes
Thesis
Translate
Emerge
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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.
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Journey
Teacher
Brain
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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 / Professor
Running
Conditions
Creating
Experiments
Imposing
Laboratory
Play
Theatrical
Tiny
Confines
Enclosed
Pan
Virtual
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It's 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 / Professor
Journey
Belief
Logical
Mathematical
Brains
Slowly
Messes
Scrambled
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Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
Marcus Du Sautoy / Professor
Arsenal
Ballet
Chess
Opera
Seconds
Football Game See
Seemed
Several
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The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.
Marcus Du Sautoy / Professor
Logical
Myself People Things
Essential
Explain
Marked
Maths
Pathway
Realise
Wonderful Thing
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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 / Professor
Looks
Numbers
World
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If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.
Marcus Du Sautoy / Professor
Blind
Flying
Frustrating
Alley
Time Thinking Always
Lab
Maths
Quite Some Time
Rush
Scientists
Sudden
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