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| thesis_title = Discrete Groups, Analytic Groups and Poincaré Series | thesis_year = 1989 | thesis_url = http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=OXVU1&docId=oxfaleph015161621 | website = | spouse = Shani Ram〔 | module = }} Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy ,〔Miller, G. M., ed. (1971) ''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names''. London: Oxford University Press; p. Du〕 OBE (born 26 August 1965) 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 is President of the Mathematical Association. He was previously an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and a Royal Society University Research Fellow. His academic work concerns mainly group theory and number theory. In October 2008, he was appointed to the Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science, succeeding the inaugural holder Richard Dawkins.〔 〕 ==Life and career== Du Sautoy was born in London, grew up in Henley-on-Thames and was educated at local comprehensives Gillotts School〔 and King James's College (VI Form, now Henley 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 (No 17 for Recreativo Hackney FC) and the trumpet.〔 In March 2006, his article ''Prime Numbers Get Hitched'' was published by the online ''Seed'' magazine.〔 〕 In it he explained how the number 42, mentioned in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' as the answer to everything, is related to the Riemann zeta function. He has also published an article in the scientific magazine ''New Scientist''. In December 2006, du Sautoy delivered the 2006 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures under the collective title ''The Num8er My5teries''. This was only the third time the subject of the lectures had been mathematics — on the first occasion in 1978, when the lecture was delivered by Erik Christopher Zeeman, du Sautoy had been a schoolboy in the audience. The venue for the 2006 Christmas Lectures was the Institution of Engineering and Technology's headquarters at Savoy Place, London. Du Sautoy is an atheist, but has stated that as holder of the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science his focus is going to be "very much on the science and less on religion."〔 〕 He has described his own religion as being "Arsenal - football," as he sees religion as wanting to belong to a community.〔Interview with Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs, 12 December 2008〕 Du Sautoy is a supporter of Common Hope, an organisation that helps people in Guatemala. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marcus du Sautoy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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