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Cédric Villani

1973 - Today

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Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (French: [sedʁik patʁis tjeʁi vilani]; born 5 October 1973) is a French politician and mathematician 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cédric Villani has received more than 1,423,756 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Cédric Villani is the 788th most popular mathematician (down from 775th in 2019), the 4,635th most popular biography from France (down from 4,421st in 2019) and the 104th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Cédric Villani ranks 788 out of 1,004. Before him are Cesare Burali-Forti, Sergei Adian, Edward O. Thorp, Joseph Keller, Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, and Charles Howard Hinton. After him are Horace Lamb, Erich Hecke, Christine Darden, Morris Kline, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, and Grigore Moisil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Cédric Villani ranks 196. Before him are Loris Capirossi, Natasha Korolyova, Johan Micoud, Brittany Andrews, John Dolmayan, and Amr Waked. After him are Milorad Mažić, Victoria Zdrok, Lene Nystrøm, Kevin McKidd, Mark Shuttleworth, and Daniel da Silva.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cédric Villani ranks 4,635 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Clair (1940), Sarah Biasini (1977), Jules Berry (1883), Philippe Gondet (1942), Valérie Pécresse (1967), and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884). After him are Claude Netter (1924), Julie Gayet (1972), Armand Lanoux (1913), Dominique Dropsy (1951), Jacqueline du Bief (1930), and Marguerite Audoux (1863).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Cédric Villani ranks 104. Before him are Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Victor Puiseux (1820), Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819), Jacques-Louis Lions (1928), and Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768). After him are Laurent Lafforgue (1966), Claire Voisin (1962), Paul Montel (1876), Roger Apéry (1916), Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922), and Henri Padé (1863).

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