Experiments in style: a book review

99 Variations on a proof, by Philip Ording

Review of 99 Variations on a proof

It was, surely, only a matter of time before someone would take Raymond Queneau’s idea of exercises in style and apply it to mathematics. In case you’re not familiar with the ‘exercises’, I’m referring to Exercises in Style, in which Queneau takes a very simple and banal story and rewrites it in a variety of styles. Mat…