François Lionnais (October 3rd 1901 with Paris - March 13rd 1984 with Boulogne-Billancourt, France) is a Mathématicien enthusiast of Littérature, doubled of a writer impassioned Science S.
Celebrate at the same time for its book on the Remarkable Nombres and the foundation of the Oulipo, Engineer and Chimiste of formation, he was also founder and president of the Association of the Scientific Writers of France , Régent of the Collège of' Pataphysique, specialist in the Jeu of failures and producer of a radio program Science walks from there on France Culture. Its knowledge literary, musical or pictorial and mathematical, led it to gather artists and researchers around sewing rooms in which a subject X would be covered only under one aspect Potentiel and where creations would be done under Contrainte S.
Inside this “general Or-X-Po” ( Or to vroir of X Po tentielle), it founds the Oulipo with Raymond Queneau concerning the Li ttérature, then Oulipopo for the Li ttérature Po licière, the Oupeinpo for the pein ture, and with No5el Arnaud (which will succeed to him the presidency of Oulipo and the destinies of Ouxpo) provides the foundations of what will become Oucuipo for the cui sine. He dies in 1984 leaving innumerable projects outstanding. It is only in 1991 with creation, by Stanley Chapman, of the Outrapo for the will tra gicomédie in particular, and all the performing arts in general, that Ouxpo will take a new rise.
Viridis Candela (quarterly Notebooks of the College of Pataphysique), n° December 18th, 15th and th 2004: especially devoted to Lionnais.
It had an extraordinary library.
Written works
On mathematics
- Remarkable Numbers , Hermann.
- Large Currents of the mathematical thought , Books of the South. 1948.
- Dictionary of Mathematics , PUF (with A. Bouvier and Mr. George, 1979 - ISBN 2-13-047821-2).
- Translator with Francine Béris (pseudonym of Francine Bloch) of Mathematics and imagination of Edward Kasner and James Newman, Paris, Payot, 1950.
On the literature
- LiPo (1st Proclamation of OuLiPo) , Gallimard 1963.
- 2nd Proclamation of Oulipo , Gallimard 1973.
- 3rd Proclamation of Oulipo , Library Oulipienne n°30.
- Certain Disparate a , Library Oulipienne n°85.
- Lewis Carroll precursory of the OU.LI.PO , ED. Henri Veyrier. 1978.
On painting
- Magnelli , Gallery of France. 1960.
- Painting with Gilded , the Graver. 1999.
On the failures
- Set of failures , “Which I Know”. PUF.
- Prices of beauty to the failures , Payot. 1962.
- Storm on the chess-board , Belin, 1981.
- Marcel Duchamp player of failures , the Graver. 1997.
- " The French opening 1é4-é6, " Editions of the Books of the Français" Chess-board; towards 1935/1946
- " The Garden of the Failures, " Editions of the Books of the Français" Chess-board; 1936
Others
- Time , ED. Robert Delpire. 1959.
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