Cédric Villani
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Maud Olivier
- Succeeded by
- Paul Midy
- Born
- ( 1973-10-05 ) 5 October 1973 (age 52) , Brive-la-Gaillarde , France
- Party
- Ecology Generation (2020–present)
- Other political affiliations
- Ecology Democracy Solidarity (2020), LREM (2017–2020)
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Cédric
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Brive-la-Gaillarde
- Position held
- member of the French National Assembly
- Educated at
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
- Employer
- University of Lyon
- Political party
- Renaissance
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- agnosticism
- Doctoral advisor
- Pierre-Louis Lions
- Student of
- Pierre-Louis Lions
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis
- Official website
- cedricvillani.org
- Image
- Cedric Villani at his office 2015 n3.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Paris
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- member of
- European Academy of Sciences
- date of birth
- 1973-10-05
- Erdős number
- 3
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- name in native language
- Cédric Villani
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- Cédric Villani
- nickname
- Marsu
- social media followers
- 108974
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Encyclopedic overview
Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani ( French: [sedʁik patʁis tjeʁi vilani]; 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. As of September 2025, he is a professor at the École normale supérieure de Rennes.
Villani has given two lectures at the Royal Institution, the first titled 'Birth of a Theorem'. The English translation of his book Théorème vivant (Living Theorem) has the same title. In the book he describes the links between his research on kinetic theory and that of the mathematician Carlo Cercignani. Villani, in fact, proved the so-called Cercignani's conjecture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cédric Villani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.