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Marcus du Sautoy
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
August 26, 1965
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The Music of the Primes
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2003
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48 editions
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What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
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2016
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32 editions
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Creativity Code
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2019
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12 editions
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Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature
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2007
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28 editions
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The Number Mysteries
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2011
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13 editions
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Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
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2023
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14 editions
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Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
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A Brief History of Mathematics
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2011
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5 editions
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How to Count to Infinity
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I is a Strange Loop
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“Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.”
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“One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seemingly be in more than one place at the same time until it is observed, at which point there seems to be a random choice made about where the particle is really located. Scientists currently believe that this randomness is genuine, not just caused by a lack of information. Repeat the experiment under the same conditions and you may get a different answer each time.”
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
“The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon of light when it is detected. The wave character of light is not vibrating stuff like a wave of water but rather a wavelike function encoding information about where you'll find the photon of light once it is detected. Until it reaches the detector plate, like the electron, it is seemingly passing through both slits simultaneously, making its mind up about its location only once it is observed [...].
It's this act of observation that is such a strange feature of quantum physics. Until I ask the detector to pick up where the electron is, the particle should be thought of as probabilistically distributed over space, with a probability described by a mathematical function that has wavelike characteristics. The effect of the two slits on this mathematical wave function alters it in such a way that the electron is forbidden from being located at some points on the detector plate. But when the particle is observed, the die is cast, probabilities disappear, and the particle must decide on a location.”
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
It's this act of observation that is such a strange feature of quantum physics. Until I ask the detector to pick up where the electron is, the particle should be thought of as probabilistically distributed over space, with a probability described by a mathematical function that has wavelike characteristics. The effect of the two slits on this mathematical wave function alters it in such a way that the electron is forbidden from being located at some points on the detector plate. But when the particle is observed, the die is cast, probabilities disappear, and the particle must decide on a location.”
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
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