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Live On Stage
Wednesday May 7 2025, 7pm BST

Marcus du Sautoy on How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

Science &
Technology

From the earliest stone circles to Mozart’s obsession with numbers to the radically modern architecture of Zaha Hadid, maths and creativity are interwoven across time and space. Whether we are searching for meaning in an abstract painting or finding patterns in poetry, there are blueprints everywhere: symmetry, prime numbers, the golden ratio and more.

On May 7 join award-winning mathematician and Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy as he looks to the arts to uncover the key mathematical structures that underpin both nature and human creativity. Drawing on his new book, Blueprints, du Sautoy will explore how we make art, why a creative mindset is vital for discovering new mathematics, and how a fundamental connection to the natural world intrinsically links these two subjects.

Join us live at Conway Hall, and have your questions answered in the Q&A.

Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity
by Marcus du Sautoy

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Speakers

Speaker

Marcus du Sautoy

Mathematician and science broadcaster


One of the country’s best known science broadcasters. He is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, where he holds the prestigious Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science. He has presented numerous programmes on television and radio, including the internationally acclaimed BBC series The Story of Maths. His bestselling books include The Music of the Primes, The Number Mysteries and, most recently, What We Cannot Know: From Consciousness to the Cosmos, the Cutting Edge of Science Explained.

Speakers are subject to change.