Fields Medal laureate Cedric Villani is one of many characters in director Olivier Peyon’s portrait of modern-day mathematicians. By Jordan Mintzer Anyone who’s suffered through a high school algebra ...

In his office in Paris’s National Assembly, Cédric Villani opens a parcel: it contains a metallic spider. “Lovely,” he says, putting it on a shelf, where a collection of spider-shaped objects sits ...

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...Fields medalist is Cedric Villani. Meet Cedric Villani, a flamboyant mathematician, who has emerged as the unlikely challenger to France's ruling party, La Republique En Marche. Villani is running ...