Marcus du Sautoy in conversation with Robert Peston

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Marcus du Sautoy in conversation with Robert Peston

12 Sep 2009

Speakers: Marcus du Sautoy, Robert Peston

On 12 September 2009, The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm hosted The Long Conversation, a 12-hour relay discussion involving twenty different speakers spanning science, art, business, technology, literature and philosophy. The series was inspired by Jem Finer’s 1000-year piece of music Longplayer – performed, simultaneously, elsewhere in the building.

Robert Peston and Marcus du Sautoy clash regarding the importance of the absolute within reality. Peston moves the focus towards the realm of modelling financial strategies, and the issues facing markets as they move out of one of the worst recessions in living memory. The conversation then turns to the public purpose of mathematics and science and their relevance to, amongst other things, education and business, and the role of these two disciplines in the future.