He has occupied visiting professor positions in Atlanta, Berkeley and Princeton.
In 1998, Villani defended his PhD on the mathematical theory of the Boltzmann equation, building on strong influences from his advisor Pierre-Louis Lions (Paris, France) and fellow mathematicians Yann Brenier (Nice, France), Eric Carlen (Rutgers, USA) and Michel Ledoux (Toulouse, France).įrom 2000 to 2010, Villani was professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and now at the Université de Lyon.
Villani was born in 1973 in France and studied mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, from 1992 to 1996 and spent four more years as assistant professor there. His book, Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), was originally published as Théorème vivant (Grasset, 2012) in France. In addition to sharing insights on his tale of how his prize-winning theorem came to be, Villani shared his insights on math and science education in France, the United States, and worldwide and about his time as a Young Leader.įrench mathematician Cédric Villani is Director of the Institut Henri Poincaré and 2010 recipient of the Fields Medal. 2012 Cédric Villani, French mathematician and recipient of the 2010 Fields Medal for his work on differential equations, joined the French-American Foundation upon a recent trip to New York to promote his book Birth of a Theorem (Théorème Vivant), recently last week in English.
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