Marcus du Sautoy

The story of the number one is the story of Western civilization. Terry Jones ("Monty Python's Flying Circus") goes on a humor-filled journey to recount the amazing tale behind the world's simplest number. (PBS.org)

Marcus du Sautoy explores the recent discovery of particles that appear to travel faster than the speed of light, and how the claims could challenge Einstein's theory of relativity. The finding has sparked a flurry of bizarre concepts, from time travel to parallel universes. Using simple language, Marcus explains what was known, what has changed, and why it matters

Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement.

Four-part series of documentaries about the history of mathematics presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy. (imdb)

Numbers are the rulers of the universe. What if there is a code for life's perfection? A code making the world we see, the "what we are" and the "everything else in the universe"?