“L’OuLiPo”: mixing maths and literature

How constraints can help creativity

In 1911, the French writer André Gide said that:

“Art is born from constraint, thrives in the struggle and is killed by freedom”

(Personal translation of the original quote)

Although some might disagree and believe that one should create in total liberty, others have decidedly followed this path to eventually come together as a group of writers and mathematicians called the…