Until this year, Cédric Villani, Ph.D., was a world-class scholar, a man affectionately nicknamed “the Lady Gaga of French Mathematicians,” and the flamboyantly dressed genius behind the TED talk, ...

Golden Age of Arab Sciences Exhibition Closing in PSUAD features Abu Dhabi 30th January 2014 - Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi hosted famous mathematician professor Cedric Villani in presence of ...

Cédric Villani, trans. from the French by Malcolm DeBevoise. FSG/Faber & Faber, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-86547-767-4 French mathematician Villani illuminates his year leading up to winning the Fields ...

Cédric Villani is at the pinnacle of the math world. Winner of the Fields Medal—widely seen as the mathematicians’ equivalent of the Nobel Prize—the French scholar is an acknowledged giant in solving ...

Cedric Villani, out campaigning to be the next mayor of Paris, was dressed in his trademark three-piece suit with pocket watch and spider brooch under his overcoat. “Don’t go changing,” a passerby ...

For Cédric Villani, mathematician and MP (ex-La République en marche), the reform of the baccalauréat (French high school curriculum) has exacerbated certain biases. Mr. Villani is concerned about the ...