Marcus du Sautoy on the clever use of mathematics to generate poetry... Episode sponsored by Backblaze online back-up - more at https://www.backblaze.com/numberphile
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See an extra video with some example sonnets using famous numbers and combinations chosen by Patreon supporters:    • 14 of the 100,000,000,000,000 poems -...  

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We discuss the original book by Raymond Queneau "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" or "One Hundred Million Million Poems" (original French title: Cent mille milliards de poèmes). We discuss his work as an example of mathematical shortcuts - a favourite topic of Professor du Sautoy.

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