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Cédric Villani

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Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (French: [sedʁik patʁis tjeʁi vilani]; born 5 October 1973) is a French mathematician and politician 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 2025, he is a professor at the École normale supérieure de Rennes. Villani has given two lectures at the Royal Institution, the first titled 'Birth of a Theorem'. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Cédric Villani is the 865th most popular mathematician (down from 788th in 2024), the 4,904th most popular biography from France (down from 4,634th in 2019) and the 109th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Cédric Villani ranks 865 out of 1,004. Before him are Henri Padé, Richard Taylor, Yasumasa Kanada, Richard K. Guy, Émile Léonard Mathieu, and I. J. Good. After him are Raoul Bott, Robert Daniel Carmichael, Marston Morse, Cornelius Lanczos, Roger Apéry, and Diederik Korteweg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Cédric Villani ranks 240. Before him are Yuri Shatunov, Indira Varma, Lene Nystrøm, Hiroki Matsubara, Marco Antonio Rodríguez, and Richart Báez. After him are James Haven, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Aílton, Song Yoon-ah, Nanako Matsushima, and Stephen Dorff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cédric Villani ranks 4,904 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Louveau (1910), Henri Eberhardt (1913), Émile Léonard Mathieu (1835), Pierre Morel (1964), Céline Sciamma (1978), and Auguste Giroux (1874). After him are Bernard Bosquier (1942), Agnès Jaoui (1964), Elizabeth Debicki (1990), Nathalie Stutzmann (1965), Samuel Le Bihan (1965), and Anthony Réveillère (1979).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Cédric Villani ranks 109. Before him are Paul Montel (1876), Jacques-Louis Lions (1928), Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922), Laurent Lafforgue (1966), Henri Padé (1863), and Émile Léonard Mathieu (1835). After him are Roger Apéry (1916), James Lighthill (1924), Claire Voisin (1962), and Hugo Duminil-Copin (1985).

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