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Cédric Aubouy, a mathematical clown and founder of the L’île logique company, agreed to meet us to mark the publication of his first novel, Je ne sais pas ou la disparition des mathématiciens.

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Deciding when to carry out the tasks needed to achieve a goal sometimes calls for imagination—or abstraction. Yet all such situations can draw on scheduling theory, a field of operations research that has been highly active for over a century.
