Michèle Audin

“"I have a book that appeared in 2016, called Mademoiselle Haas. There were so many men in 121 Days that I decided to write a book about women! Mademoiselle Haas is about women working in Paris in the 1930s. None of them are mathematicians—at that time there were very few women mathematicians. And I have another book that will appear in September this year, about the Paris Commune in 1871. It has nothing to do with mathematics, although there are some mathematicians in it."”

“"No. Under President Hollande, the archives have been opened. But I don’t think there is anything in the archives, because this was something done secretly by the army. And it was sixty years ago"”

“"It was a very natural process. When I would write mathematics, I always tried to take care to write well. I am not the kind of mathematician who uses only fifty words of vocabulary! I just like to write, and I am happy to write about mathematics or mathematicians or anything else. Fiction writing is not very different from writing mathematics. It uses the same qualities, such as imagination and rigor."”