Marcus du Sautoy is a professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, and a Royal Society researcher. His work focuses on how prime numbers behave and the building blocks of symmetry. He also writes about maths for newspapers and academic journals, and has kept a journal of his work, recently published in Science, Not Art: Ten scientists’ diaries (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation). His own book, The Music of the Primes (Fourth Estate), is a bestseller. It tells the story of mathematicians battling to understand how nature chose the primes.
What is a prime number? And a zeta function?
Primes…
