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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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Works

Birth of a Theorem
Birth of a Theorem
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Birth of a Theorem
Birth of a Theorem
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Famous Cédric Villani Quotes

“When you are into mathematics, you have been so high on the scale of complexity of reasoning that you are living in some kind of altered reality. You think everybody on the street is able to understand complicated reasoning […]. And you get very frustrated, when you discover that's not the case.”

Cédric Villani

"Mathematics: Beauty vs Utility - Numberphile". youtube.com. January 19, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2018.

“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 book Birth of a Theorem

[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]

“Fields medalists are nothing out of the ordinary at Princeton—you sometimes find yourself seated next to three or four of them at lunch!”

Cédric Villani

“In some situations however, when you are deeply with your problem, you feel at home anywhere just thinking about your problem. Some of my best work was done in hotels, on the train, and there's no rule. More important when you think is what goes on inside rather outside. […] The best thoughts can be nearly everywhere.”

Cédric Villani

"The Mathematician's Office - Numberphile". youtube.com. August 25, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2018.

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