A Mathematical Odyssey Through Everyday Life, Marcus du Sautoy May 18, 2009

Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford Professor of Public Understanding of Science and author of many books and television programmes, shows how mathematical inventions are fundamental to life and work; how prime numbers are the key to Real Madrid’s success, discovering secrets on the Internet and the survival of insects in North American forests. He’ll show us how to fake a Jackson Pollock, how to work out whether or not the universe has a hole in the middle of it and how to make the world’s roundest football. He tells us about the quest to predict the future; from the flight of asteroids to an impending storm, from bending a ball like Beckham to predicting population growth.

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