Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician, author, and broadcaster. He is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford and has presented numerous BBC programmes about mathematics. Around the World in 80 Games explores the mathematics behind the games we play — from chess to poker to video games — revealing the deep mathematical structures hidden in our favourite pastimes. Du Sautoy's writing makes mathematics accessible, entertaining, and genuinely exciting. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers mathematics made genuinely exciting and fun — books that reveal the hidden patterns in the world around us.