Mathematician Michèle Audin is a member of the Oulipo, the very selective group of writers who apply constraints to their works, and whose notable members include Italo Calvino (whose "Invisible Cities" is designed like a sine wave) and Georges Perec (whose "A Void" does not contain the letter "e"). Audin, whose novel "One Hundred Twenty-One Days" depicts mathematicians in wartime using a variety of documents, gives us an inside look at the society--using Oulipian constraints.
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