The Job of a Mathematician

Marcus de soto is the simone professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University. He also writes plays and he plays music, and preaches the virtues of math on television and elsewhere in the u k. You describe the job of a mathematician as discovering the ways of thinking smarter. I'm curious how ful you think mathematicians have been in that realm. A, ha, ha, incredibly successful. Think about how we can draw conclusions from a massive set of data while only having to touch a few pieces of that data. i never remember anybody coming round and asking our cat what foo it lights.