Cédric Villani

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French politician human mathematician

Cédric Villani is a French mathematician renowned for his work in partial differential equations and mathematical physics, for which he received the Fields Medal in 2010.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French politician → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Doob Prize → Ferdinand Riesz Prize → Fields Medal → Fields Medal 2010 → Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand → Henri Poincaré Prize → Jacques Herbrand Prize → Joseph L. Doob Prize →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1973-10-05 →
doctoralAdvisor	Pierre-Louis Lions →
educatedAt	Université Paris-Dauphine NERFINISHED → École normale supérieure NERFINISHED →
electedIn	2017 French legislative election →
employer	Institut Henri Poincaré → Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 NERFINISHED →
familyName	Villani →
fieldOfWork	kinetic theory → mathematical physics → mathematics → optimal transport → partial differential equations →
gender	male →
givenName	Cédric →
hasDistinctiveFeature	often wears a large silk cravat → often wears a spider brooch →
knownFor	contributions to optimal transport theory → work on Boltzmann equation → work on Landau damping →
languageSpoken	English → French →
memberOf	Academia Europaea → Académie des sciences → European Parliament of Science and Innovation advisory bodies → French Academy of Sciences →
name	Cédric Villani →
notableWork	Birth of a Theorem → Optimal Transport: Old and New → Théorème vivant →
placeOfBirth	Brive-la-Gaillarde →
politicalParty	Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity parliamentary group → La République En Marche! →
positionHeld	deputy in the French National Assembly → director of Institut Henri Poincaré → professor at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 →
represented	5th constituency of Essonne →
workLocation	Lyon → Paris →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
École Polytechnique →	hasAlumnus
Sylvester Medal →	hasNotableRecipient
Cédric Villani →	name