 In this talk, as in his book, The Music of the Primes, Marcus du Sautoy will explain why there is a $1,000,000 award for anybody who can settle the 150 year-old 'Riemann Hypothesis'.Marcus du Sautoy is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Wadham College and Senior Media Fellow at the EPSRC. He has been a visiting
Professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Australian National University in Canberra. He was named by the Independent on Sunday as one
of the UK's leading scientists, and he has won the prestigious Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society. In 2004, Esquire Magazine chose him as one of the 100 most influential people under 40 in Britain. He is
author of numerous academic articles and books on mathematics and his presentations, which include "Why Beckham chose the 23 shirt," have played to a wide range of audiences: from theatre directors to bankers, from diplomats to prison inmates.
He is the author of the book, The Music of the Primes.
Marcus du Sautoy writes for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and the Guardian and is frequently asked for comment on BBC radio
and television where he has presented his own series "5 Shapes on Radio 4." He is also presenter of BBC4's TV game
show "Mind Games," and he presented a one hour documentary for BBC4 based on his book, The Music of the Primes. He gave
the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2006 entitled THE NUM8ER MY5TERIES, a broadcast on Channel Five.
Marcus du Sautoy plays the trumpet and football. Like Beckham, he also plays in a prime number shirt, number 17, for the team Recreativo FC, based in the
Hackney Marshes. He lives in London with his wife, three children and cat Freddie Ljungberg.
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