In his office in Paris’s National Assembly, Cédric Villani opens a parcel: it contains a metallic spider. “Lovely,” he says, putting it on a shelf, where a collection of spider-shaped objects sits ...

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, ...

It’s a cold, early February evening in Paris, and the Trianon theatre is jam-packed. About a thousand men and women of all ages have raucously filled the orchestra pit and balconies, not intimidated ...

Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician, born on 21 March 1768 in Auxerre, France. His name is closely associated with the Fourier series and Fourier transform, mathematical tools utilised in a wide ...

Cédric Villani’s arrival, one afternoon last May, at a small café off the Champs-Élysées drew glances from a good fraction of the late-lunch crowd. His shoulder-length hair was parted almost ...

Fields Medal laureate Cedric Villani is one of many characters in director Olivier Peyon’s portrait of modern-day mathematicians. By Jordan Mintzer Anyone who’s suffered through a high school algebra ...

Mathematicians tend to conjure images of ill-fitting pants and pen protectors, but one fashionable genius is changing that equation, at the same time his theories are adding efficiency to global ...

Math is a laboratory for better thinking. That is the argument of Cedric Villani, one of the world’s most famous mathematicians. In 2010, at the age of 37, Villani won the Fields Medal, the equivalent ...

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 ...

One evening in 2009, French mathematician Cédric Villani stepped into his children's room. He locked the door, turned off the light and began to pace, pondering the statistical properties of plasma. A ...

Is a scientist in politics incongruous? Cédric Villani, Fields Medal winner and mayoral candidate, doesn’t think so. By Siobhan Roberts PARIS — On a Wednesday night in December, amid civic strife over ...