Marcus du Sautoy on Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut

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** Marcus du Sautoy:
The Art of the Shortcut
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Join us for this unmissable event with Marcus du Sautoy and shortcut your route to being more creative, strategic and more efficient.

How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car boot more efficiently?

In his latest book, Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy interrogates his passion for shortcuts and shows us that mathematics is full of better ways of thinking. After all, shortcuts have enabled so much of human progress, whether in constructing the first cities around the Euphrates 5,000 years ago, using calculators to determine the scale of the universe, or in writing today's algorithms that help us find a new life partner.

As well as looking at the most useful shortcuts in history – such as measuring the circumference of the earth in 240 BC to diagrams that illustrate how modern GPS works – Marcus explores how you can use shortcuts in investing, memory techniques and in learning to play a musical instrument. In Thinking Better he talks to, among many, the writer Robert MacFarlane, cellist Natalie Clein and the psychologist Susie Orbach, asking whether shortcuts are always the best idea and, if so, when they use them. With engaging conundrums throughout to illustrate the shortcut's ability to find solutions with speed, Thinking Better, offers many clever strategies for daily complex solutions.

Marcus du Sautoy is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at the Royal Society. In 2008, he was appointed to the University's prestigious professorship as the Simonyi Chait for the Public Understanding of Science, a post previously held by Richard Dawkins. He has presented numerous radio and tv programmes, including a four-part landmark TV series for the BBC called The Story of Maths. He works extensively with a range of arts organisations bringing science alive for the public, from the Royal Opera house to the Glastonbury Festival.

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