Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician and the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He writes popular mathematics and science books, among them The Music of the Primes, The Creativity Code, The Great Unknown, The Number Mysteries, Finding Moonshine, and Around the World in 80 Games, which looks at the mathematics behind games from many cultures. He won the Royal Society's Faraday Prize in 2009 and was made an OBE in 2010.