The New Statesman
•Marcus du Sautoy: “A mathematician is a storyteller”
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Marcus du Sautoy is co-directing a play about André Weil , who proved the Riemann hypothesis for curves.
The Axiom of Choice is described as an exploration of free will, war and mathematics’ It is running in Oxford in November , before heading to India and then returning in 2025 for a UK tour.
Du Sautoy sees mathematical patterns in everything: from the success of the band Radiohead to tactics for Monopoly .
He admits he found maths boring at school at least until the age of 13 , when his teacher asked to see him after class.
His teacher created for him “a mathematics course that I wish exists, a kind of literature of maths”.
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