Cédric Villani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Cédric Villani

French mathematician and politician

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1973

Place of Birth: Brive-la-Gaillarde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Profession: politician, mathematician, professeur des universités

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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About Cédric Villani

  • Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (French: [se.d?ik pa.t?is tj?.?i vi.la.ni]; born 5 October 1973) 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. In one of two lectures given at the Royal Institution, Villani recalls that his initial inspiration regarding the field of mathematics came from the 1959 Walt Disney cartoon Donald in Mathmagic Land.
  • This lecture is titled 'Birth of a Theorem'.
  • The English translation of his book Théorème vivant (Living Theorem) has the same title.
  • His second lecture at the Royal Institution is titled 'The Extraordinary Theorems of John Nash'. 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! (REM), 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.

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