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Cédric Villani

Born

in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France

October 05, 1973

Website

http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~villani

Genre

Science, Nonfiction

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Cédric Villani is a French mathematician who has received many international awards for his work including the Jacques Herbrand Prize, the Prize of the European Mathematical Society, the Fermat Prize and the Henri Poincaré Prize.

In 2010 he was awarded the Fields Medal, the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation. Often called ‘the mathematicians’ Nobel Prize’, it is awarded every four years and is viewed by some as the highest honour a mathematician can achieve.

He is a professor at Lyon University and Director of the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, working primarily on partial differential equations and mathematical physics.

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	Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure by Cédric Villani, Malcolm DeBevoise (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 1,666 ratings — published 2012 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Rêveurs lunaires. Quatre génies qui ont changé l'Histoire by Cédric Villani, Edmond Baudoin 3.88 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les mathématiques sont la poésie des sciences (La tortue de Zénon) (French Edition) 3.92 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Optimal Transport: Old and New (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 338) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Immersion: De la science au Parlement 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La maison des mathématiques by Cédric Villani, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Vincent Moncorgé 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Topics in Optimal Transportation 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Santé et intelligence artificielle (Biologie/neurosciences) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henri Poincaré. Ordre et chaos 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brèves de maths: Mathématiques de la planète Terre. by Cédric Villani, Liliane Bel, Sylvie Benzoni 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Once again I had to put myself in a vulnerable position in order to become stronger.”
― Cédric Villani, Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

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“I woke up with a start, a little after 5:30 in the morning, to that wonderful feeling that lasts only a fraction of a second, when you don’t know where you are—not even what continent you’re on! I jumped up from the futon and went over to my computer to make a note of the few fragments of the dream I could still hold on to before they completely melted away in the mind’s morning fog. The complexity and the confusion of the adventure put me in a good mood: I take such dreams as a sign that my brain is in good working order.”
― Cédric Villani, Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

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“Mathematicians, like the poor Lady of Shalott in Tennyson’s Arthurian ballad, cannot look at the world directly, only at its reflection—a”
― Cédric Villani, Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

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