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Mathematics: Literary and a story of surrealLongtime Oulipo member Jacques Roubaud's homage to one of the great passions of his life: mathematics . . . [continued] The third "branch" of Jacques Roubaud's epic, Proustian Great Fire of London, Mathematics: is also an excellent entrance into the series. Adopting math as a career relatively late in his studies, Roubaud here narrates his difficulties both personal and pedagogical, while also investigating the role of mathematics in his life as a