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Cédric Villani

1973 - Today

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Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (French: [se.dʁik pa.tʁis tje.ʁi vi.la.ni]; 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 1,369,396 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Cédric Villani is the 778th most popular mathematician (down from 714th in 2019), the 4,438th most popular biography from France (down from 3,926th in 2019) and the 101st most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Cédric Villani ranks 778 out of 823. Before him are Joseph Wedderburn, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Francesco Severi, Shinichi Mochizuki, Richard Brauer, and Wu Wenjun. After him are Joseph Keller, Armand Borel, Giuseppe Veronese, Richard Taylor, Vladimir Voevodsky, and Marshall Harvey Stone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Cédric Villani ranks 219. Before him are Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jakob Cedergren, Kim Sun-a, Indira Varma, David Miller, and Nikos Machlas. After him are Nick Bostrom, Anneke van Giersbergen, Inés Sastre, Rob Morgan, Omar Epps, and Dave Chappelle.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cédric Villani ranks 4,438 out of 6,011. Before him are Laurent Jalabert (1968), Roman Coppola (1965), Louis Daquin (1908), Célestin Delmer (1907), Michel Bonnevie (1921), and Paul Henri Lecomte (1856). After him are Jean Boiteux (1933), Bernard Collomb (1930), Pierre Trentin (1944), Henri Deloge (1874), Louis Chaillot (1914), and Kazimir Hnatow (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Cédric Villani ranks 101. Before him are Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Victor Puiseux (1820), Edmond Laguerre (1834), Laurent Lafforgue (1966), and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923). After him are Henri Padé (1863), James Lighthill (1924), Roger Apéry (1916), Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922), and Claire Voisin (1962).

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