Villani shares his pdf favorite songs, his love of manga, and the imaginative stories he tells his children. This page was last edited on 29 october 2019, at 11. The laudations for the winners and their talks at the congress will appear in volume 1 of the proceedings. Birth of a theorem combines passion and imagination to take us on a fantastical adventure through the beautiful, mysterious world of mathematics. Cedric villani, distinguished french mathematician, visited croatia in 2017.
For his proofs of nonlinear landau damping and convergence to equilibrium for the boltzmann equation. Blending science with history, biography with myth, villani conjures up an inimitable cast of characters including the omnipresent einstein, mad genius kurt godel, and villanis personal hero, john nash. Talks and seminar notes pdf files unless otherwise indicated. Sep 01, 2006 this memoir attempts at a systematic study of convergence to stationary state for certain classes of degenerate diffusive equations, by means of wellchosen lyapunov functionals. In this note we present the main results from the recent work 9, which for the first time establish landau damping in a. The french mathematician cedric villani is no ordinary looking university professor. Also, we are preparing broad audience conference about the future of mathematics and. An interview with cedric villani, mathematician, 2010 fields medalist and a french politician. Optimal transport old and new cedric villani springer. Blending science with history, biography with myth, villani conjures up an inimitable cast of characters including the omnipresent einstein, mad genius kurt godel, and villani s personal hero, john nash. Cedric villani, french mathematician who was awarded the fields medal in 2010 for his work in mathematical physics. Readers become witnesses cedric villani scientific.
Monge in the 18th century, which has made breathtaking forays into various other domains of mathematics ever since. Handsome and slender, with a boyish face and a wavy, neck length bob, he looks more. Entretien avec cedric villani find, read and cite all the. The book theoreme vivant, by cedric villani, explores a different direction and gives a wonderfully living answer to the question. Cedric villani this is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of mass transportation with its manyand sometimes unexpectedapplications. Typical examples are the kinetic fokkerplanck and boltzmann equation.
It follows, through a few years of work, a collaboration by villani and his former student, clement boutot, on a difficult and important result. A huge collection of photos taken during icm2010 are here. Cedric villani has provided a deep mathematical understanding of a variety of physical phenomena. At the center of much of his work is his profound mathematical interpretation of the physical concept of entropy, which he has applied to solve major problems inspired by physics. Cedric villani is being awarded the 2010 fields medal for his proofs of nonlinear landau damping and convergence to equilibrium for the. Cedric villani visited croatia lecturing at the university. Cedric villani is the lady gaga of math and a french. The role of explanation finale doshivelez, mason kortz, ryan budish, chris bavitz, sam gershman, david obrien, kate scott, stuart shieber, james waldo, david weinberger, adrian weller, alexandra wood1 i. In mathematics, as in any creative work, it is the thinkers whole life that propels discoveryand with birth of a theorem, cedric villani welcomes you into his. Many open problems and possible directions for future research are discussed. Pdf on jan 1, 2015, duarte rolo and others published theoreme vivant. Topics in optimal transportation cedric villani download. The second question, the decay to equilibrium for the boltzmann equation, is where villani made his fundamental contribution. Although both papers are substantial works that are each over 100 pages long, they barely mention the concept of human rights.
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This page was last edited on 14 december 2014, at 19. At the close of the 1980s, the independent contributions of yann brenier, mike cullen and john mather launched a revolution in the venerable field of optimal transport founded by g. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. He has received many mathematical awards, including the fields medal in 2010, often considered the most prestigious in mathematics. John nash as the inspiration for a beautiful mind starring russell crowe. Boltzmann who introduced nonequilibrium statistical physics and the famous h functional. The work of cedric villani international mathematical union. In a novel approach to the subject, the book both surveys the topic and includes a chapter of problems, making it a particularly useful graduate textbook. Pdf on sep 1, 2016, snezana lawrence and others published birth of a theorem. Cedric villani is at the pinnacle of the math world. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Books by cedric villani author of birth of a theorem.
Villani studied mathematics at the ecole normale superiere in paris. Introduction these notes record the six lectures for the cime summer course held by the second author in cetraro during the week of june 2328, 2008, with minor modi. Two key figures in french mathematics, cedric villani, fields medalist in 2010, and artur avila, the frenchbrazilian winner of the prestigious prize in 2014, engage in an informal conversation with christoph sorger, director of the cnrs national institute for mathematical sciences and their interactions insmi. He received a masters degree in numerical analysis from pierre and marie curie university in paris in 1996 and a. Cedric villanis book is a lucid and very readable documentation of the tremendous recent analytic progress in optimal mass transportation theory and of its diverse and unexpected applications in optimization, nonlinear pde, geometry, and mathematical physics. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Cedric villani, mathematician, 2010 fields medalist. National policies and international challenges the role of international cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence. In 2010 he was awarded the fields medal for his work on landau damping and the boltzmann equation. It starts from the basic notions of mean field limits and provides substantial bibliographical notes.
The lady gaga of math was just elected to french parliament. Introduction the use of applied machine learning for automated decisionmaking and decision. To this day, his work, writings and universality make him one of the most prominent embodiment of the creativity of the human mind. Jun 21, 2017 the lady gaga of math was just elected to french parliament. Furthermore, his results have fed back into mathematics. C edric villani, born in 1973, is a french mathematician working primarly on partial di erential equations, riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. French fields medal winner cedric villani makes math sexy. Theoreme vivant isbn 9782246798828 pdf epub cedric villani. Report of the 20082009 ias special year program in geometric. Oktober 1973 in brivelagaillarde ist ein vielfach preisgekronter u. Sep 26, 20 readers become witnesses cedric villani. A brief description of the work of the winners is available at the links given below. Jun 19, 2017 the police hero, the maths genius and more.
Cedric villani like so many teenage science lovers in the 1980s, i first discovered artificial intelligenceaiby reading the captivating books by douglas hofstadter, who popularised science and portrayed alan turing with an enthusiasm that was irresistible. Cedric villanis most popular book is birth of a theorem. Villani will be held after the lecture abstract this talk is devoted to the presentation of some of the most important concepts in statistical mechanics, including. Professor villani has received many national and international prizes for his research, including the fields medal in 2010 for his proofs of nonlinear landau damping and convergence to equilibrium for the boltzmann equation. At the time, entropy was a vague concept and its rigorous definition had to wait until the fundamental work of l.
Report of the 20082009 ias special year program in. It will be one of the emost important files this year. Optimal transport, old and new cedric villani download. Honorary doctor of science city university of hong kong. He is a member of the french academy of sciences and the pontifical academy. Villani will be held after the lecture abstract this talk is devoted to the presentation of some of the most important concepts in statistical mechanics, including boltzmanns statistical entropy, the notion of macroscopic irreversibility and molecular chaos, and the boltzmann equation. On 3rd of april he delivered two lectures, one for high school students in the city of zagreb, dealing with math and bats, and another one at the university of zagreb, dealing with mathematics and art. Cedric villani is not only one of the greatest mathematicians of this century fields medal in 2010, he cuts a dramatic figure always with one. This memoir attempts at a systematic study of convergence to stationary state for certain classes of degenerate diffusive equations, by means of wellchosen lyapunov functionals.
All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. International congress of mathematicians 2010, hyderabad. Cedric villani is the director of the institut henri poincare, frances prime and oldest international institute for research in mathematical sciences. Cedric villani has 32 books on goodreads with 4260 ratings. The second text, much longer, is a set of the lecture notes for a course of 56 hours which i taught in cotonou benin and in cirm luminy, france. Villani shares his favorite songs, his love of manga, and the imaginative stories he tells his children. Cedric patrice thierry villani is a french mathematician and politician working primarily on.