Didier Nordon is interested in the interactions between science and society. Not only the author of Bloc-notes (Notebooks) in the magazine Pour la science (For science) and mathematics professor at the University of Bordeaux 1, he is also the author of many works amongst which figure Des cailloux dans les choses sûres (Stones in things we believe to be certain), Deux et deux font-ils quatre? (Do two and two really make four?) and Les obstinations d'un mathématicien (Obstinacies of a mathematician) published by Belin, a collection of short stories and Au cirque (At the circus), published by L'Improviste. He has also written for young people for the Ratatouille collection (Autrement), Le chocolat, ça craque; Les épinards, ça rouille; Les œufs, ça brouille; La soupe, ça chatouille (Chocolate snaps; Spinach rusts; Eggs scramble; Soup tickles).