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Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani is a French mathematician and politician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010 and he was the director of Sorbonne University's Institut Henri Poincaré from 2009 to 2017.

Villani was elected to the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, during the 2017 legislative election. A member of La République En Marche! he represents Essonne's 5th constituency. He was elected Vice President of the French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices in July 2017.



✵ 5. October 1973
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Birth of a Theorem
Birth of a Theorem
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“If paparazzi specialized in mathematical celebrities they'd camp outside the dining hall at the IAS and come away with a new batch of pictures every day.”

[Cédric Villani, Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure, https://books.google.com/books?id=aN8tBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT70, 5 March 2015, Random House, 978-1-4481-5657-3, 70]

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