The terms "nerd" and "geek" may have been reclaimed now, but it was not always this way. He had an aptitude for maths but it was not especially important until he turned And, of course, there's nothing the ladies love more than the guy who's good at maths.
They can see your glorious arm heading skywards first for all the questions. It's a bit of a gunshow as you sit there smiling: 'I've got this everybody! I'll take this difficult question. He hit a particularly immovable wall in his second year with quantum mechanics, although he accepts now that the subject was only part of the problem. Before his exam in quantum mechanics he necked caffeine tablets, which had the curious effect of keeping him physically awake but leaving him mentally incapable of abstract thought.
He also had "fingers in a lot of pies" at university: organising elections, making orientation speeches for first-years and eventually editing the student newspaper, the University Observer. Meanwhile, he was flunking his finals and he had to ask for special dispensation to sit them again.
Second time round, he passed. He has no regrets but there may be some unfinished business. Last year he did a course in quantum mechanics, his nemesis subject, from the iTunes U, the home-study Apple "university". But at this age, you're nowhere near as sharp. It gets rusty and you suddenly realise you don't remember all the rules of differentiation, let alone the rules of integration.
And he goes, 'Obviously, then…' Obviously! No, not obviously. I'm a guy in my 40s in my kitchen, why obviously? His love for the subject matter is impossible to fake, says du Sautoy. It's a pretty terrifying gig for him, actually. I get to set the questions and obviously I know what the answers are, but he's doing this blind.
And when he does get it, the passion and the elation that comes through is what's so magical about that series. So I think their mentality is perfect for coming on this programme: you fire a problem at them, and they think in really weird ways, and sometimes they come up with the right answers because of that. It doesn't happen often, he says, but his response is always combative. There's always somebody who can call your show dumbed-down; it doesn't matter how technical you go.
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