Cédric Villani

Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani 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. As of September 2022, he is a professor at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.

5 October 1973

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Born in the same month (October 1973): Angélica Gavaldón • Christopher Bevins • Greg Chalmers • Grigol Mgaloblishvili • Joaquin Gage • Martin Corry (rugby union) • Meelis Friedenthal • Rubén Garcés • Sarah Winckless • Seth MacFarlane • Vonetta Flowers