2022-05-04

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Marcus du Sautoy recites 14 of the possible sonnets devised by Raymond Queneau - main video is at: /youtube/video/9RvqE1CQXfI

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The original book is A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems or One hundred million million poems (original French title: Cent mille milliards de poèmes) by Raymond Queneau. We discuss his work as an example of using mathematics as a shortcut - a favourite topic of Professor du Sautoy.

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