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My Take
Cedric Villani is the kind of mathematician who actually crossed over into public life, and that fascinates me. Winning the Fields Medal in 2010 already puts him among the very best in the world, but he didn't stop at the chalkboard. He wrote Birth of a Theorem to let outsiders glimpse how proofs really get made, then stepped into French politics, which takes a different kind of nerve entirely. The pile of honors, the Fermat Prize, the Poincare Prize, the Legion of Honour, speaks for itself. I admire people who refuse to stay in one lane, and Villani clearly believes ideas belong in the open, not locked away in journals.
Overview
Cédric Villani is a mathematician from France.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Cédric Villani
- Name (Japanese)
- セドリック・ヴィラニ
- Reading
- せどりっく・ゔぃらに
- Born
- October 5, 1973 (age 52)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Ox
- Origin
- Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, France
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- mathematician / university teacher / politician / professors, scientific professions
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Paris Dauphine University
Awards & achievements
- 2011 Knight of the Legion of Honour
- 2010 Fields medal
- 2009 Fermat Prize
- 2014 Joseph Doob Prize
- 2007 Jacques Herbrand Prize
- 2009 Henri Poincaré Prize
- 2013 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
- 2013 Prix François-Mauriac
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Birth of a Theorem | — |
6. Links
Mathematician — see all → · University teacher — see all → · More people from France →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.