Marcus Du Sautoy

What We Cannot Know (eBook, ePUB)

Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting' Bill Bryson

Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007576579
• Artikelnr.: 43371515

Autorenporträt

Marcus du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. In 2008 he was appointed to the University's prestigious professorship as the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science, a post previously held by Richard Dawkins. In 2009 The Royal Society awarded him the Faraday Prize for excellence in communicating science to the public, and in 2010 he received an OBE from the Queen for his services to science.

He is the author of The Music of the Primes, Finding Moonshine and The Number Mysteries. He has presented numerous programmes on television and radio, including the internationally acclaimed BBC series The Story of Maths and the comedy maths show The School of Hard Sums with Dara Ó Briain. He lives in London with his wife and three children.