Syndrome de Diogène

roder (un moteur) mais rôder (errer), rôdeur. S. sècheresse*, sècherie*, sécréter, sécrétion, sèneçon* , sénescence, sénestre, sènevé*, séquoia, serapeum, sombréro, spéculum, Eugène Sue, sur (aigre) mais sûr (certain), symptôme mais symptomatique, syndrome. T. tâtonner mais tatillon, téter, tétée, tétin, tétine, téton mais tèterelle, trône, trôner mais introniser. V. vènerie, Viêt-nam ou Vietnam (mais vietnamien). Quelques mots souvent mal orthographiés : Aléa: n. m. Évènement imprévisible, ne prend

version of it, we have the mathematician as paranoid–schizoid, a genius haunted by demons. Most recently, if perhaps least seriously, Mark Haddon (2003) contributes a new element by presenting the mathematical genius as a sufferer from Asperger’s Syndrome, physically unable to construct human relationships, numbering his chapters by primes. The ‘mathematician-problem’ has become another object for consumption, a way of selling books, TV programmes, films, etc. In the old (1960s) situationist language