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I am trying to find a math talk on YouTube, which I had seen a while ago. The only thing I remember is that it was an entertaining talk (like a fun challenge) where the speaker had a specific constraint on the words he could use. If I remember corrected, he was only allowed to use 6-letters words. So for instance, he replace "Proof : ..." by "Solved : ...", or "Theorem" by "Result", etc. Did anyone watch this video as well, by chance? I would be glad to find the reference... Thanks!

Alphonse
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  • How did he replace "the" or other very common short words? – coffeemath May 06 '22 at 18:53
  • @coffeemath : he just removed those, IIRC. He just kept the essential on the slides. – Alphonse May 06 '22 at 18:54
  • (Maybe it was not exactly this constraint, it could have been something like all words have to start with 'A', or Monosyllabic (see proof 9 in Philip Ording's book) ... but I think the constraint was about the number of letters). – Alphonse May 06 '22 at 19:00
  • There are many forms of constrained writing, and many poems with mathematical structure of some kind. You might be interested in Oulipo. – hardmath May 06 '22 at 19:13
  • We can read here some math text without the letter 'e' (lipogram) in French by G. Perec:"Mais nul n’a jamais pu savoir la conclusion à quoi Galois comptait aboutir dans son manuscrit non fini. Cantor, Douady, Bourbaki, ont cru, par un, par dix biais (du corps parfait aux topos, du local ring aux Cstar, du K-functor qu’on doit à Shih aux □ s du grand Thom, n’oubliant ni distributions, ni involutions, ni convolutions, Schwartz ni Koszul ni Cartan ni Giorgiutti) saisir un vrai fil sûr pour franchir l’abrupt hiatus. Tout fut vain." – Watson May 26 '22 at 11:26

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