Marcus du Sautoy Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Marcus du Sautoy quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 59 year old British mathematician born on Aug 26, 1965.
“Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.”
“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.”
“The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.”
“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.”
“When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.”
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