Birth of a Theorem - with Cédric Villani 

Seconds into the lecture and he is now one my favorite human beings. The accent, the mathematical skill, the dress style, all superb!

Very true words at 22:52 -- "The value of a higher education institution does not lie in the fact that students are taught the best science of today. It lies in the fact that students will be able to get ideas that go further than that."

I think this is really interesting: Doctoral advisor of Cedric Villani: Pierre-Louis Lions Doctoral Advisor of Pierre-Louis Lions: Haïm Brezis Doctoral Advisor of Haïm Brezis: Jacques-Louis Lions Doctoral Advisor of Jacques-Louis Lions: Laurent-Moïse Schwartz Doctoral Advisor of Laurent-Moïse Schwartz: Georges Jean Marie Valiron Doctoral Advisor of Georges Jean Marie Valiron: Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel Doctoral Advisor of Borel: Jean-Gaston Darboux Doctoral Advisor of Jean-Gaston Darboux: Michel Floréal Chasles Doctoral Advisor of Chasles: Siméon Denis Poisson Doctoral Advisor of Poisson: Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Pierre-Simon Laplace Doctoral Advisor of Laplace: Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert Doctoral Advisor of Lagrange: Leonhard Euler Doctoral advisor of euler: Johann Bernoulli Doctoral advisor of Bernoulli: Jacob Bernoulli Doctoral Advisor of Jacob: Nicolas Malebranche So Villani is "academic related" to great math legends like bernoulli, laplace, euler, lagrange, poisson, etc

A real privilege to be able to watch these lectures for free. Very inspiring, merci Professor Villani!

This guy looks like a Bond villain. Love it :)

I love his manner of speech - the way he mixes formal and refined syntax with informal terminology like "guys" and "crap" and "what the hell" (which itself sounds all the funnier because of his accent). XD

I see Franz Liszt gave up on music and moved on to Maths

It was so nice to hear such a famous professor saying that the process of finding a solution is full of mistakes and wrong ideas that lead you to good final thought. Maybe I am not a mathematician, but when I invent some machines I face a lot of mistakes or wrong conclusions that have to be corrected while creation process. I thought that I am poor inventor but it looks like everybody is facing this kind of problems. I always say that building a prototype is like walking two steps forward and one back. Thanks Cedric, you've reinforced me a lot!!!

A man whose presence is as compelling and memorable as witnessing the performance of a legendary actor. For some baffled minutes I was guessing at what renowned scientist this gifted actor in period dress, who could do perfect dialect, was playing, before it hit me that this was a person exactly as he really was. The man did 60 minutes of non-stop dialog that came across like it was one perfectly organized paragraph. I have seen some really good lectures with really interesting content before, and been perfectly satisfied with that, but this is the first that was simultaneously a work of art.

He's is extraordinarily charismatic and quirky. I might be falling in love with Mathematics because of him.

He looks like what I would imagine a scientist out of a Jules Verne novel to look like. Not to mention brilliant.

Cédric Villani, He definitely onows how to pack tons and tons of important and impactful information into his talks. Magnifique intelligence!

Straight out of a Tim Burton movie. He won a Fields Medal w/ 3 years to spare. What a guy.

I watched the talk he gave on Nash and now I'm hooked on this guy. He could tell you a story just by looking at you!

I like his style. Ridiculous and cool at the same time. My kind of guy.

A superb talk by Cedric Villani. A must see for every scientist and every aspiring scientist.

"Most of our lives are spent in failure." People who hope they'll one day have a "Eureka!" moment tend to forget how frustrated and confused Archimedes was between the time he was given the problem and that fabled moment.

I'm glad people like Cedric still exist.

It's the 19th century all over again! Fantastic!

This guy would be the perfect superhero villain. His last name is even practically villain. Not to mention the way he dresses.

This guy is the real life "Count" from Sesame Street. Love it.

What I like about Cedric is his ability to turn mathematics into a narrative. He is also good at explaining the mentality and tribulations of those who have a passion for math and science.

I totally dig his look. The Lavallière and the bug (has 10 legs so its not a spider) as well as the time piece are so cool.

beautiful communicator i wish my teachers had as much passion as he i would have absorbed every single word wonderful

Wonderful stuff from Professor Villani and it's a real privilege to have him share his creative experiences in ways that a layman can grasp and reflect on. I got so much from every part of this lecture but was particularly impressed with his postulate that the imposition (and relaxation) of constraints can lead to new insights.

I JUST WATCHED IT FOR 58 MINUTES AND 24 SECONDS BECAUSE YOU ARE FREAKING BEUTIFUL.

Mathematics is the only legal drug who make You both happy and smart.

He always dresses like this ...he is one of the greatest living Mathematicians and a lovely man

professor Villani is a joy to watch.

41:57 What a coincidence: I was just using Faa di Bruno's formula in some of my own work. Nice to see it appear here!

11:07 i like how he acknowledges that the unconscious is a vital part of "you"

The Doctor is real, and he is french.

I am definitely right away start improving my piano playing skills. Thanks Cedric for motivation.

The style is the man

I do hope that Villani can be persuaded to do the Ri Christmas lectures. A version of this material aimed at children would be very nice I think.

Fantastic discourse; been one of my favorites. 👍👍

Veeeery good indeed! Thanks! And more, please.

Excellent talk - thanks for posting!!

He is one of the most spectacular lecturers and speakers.

Very good video, thank you for uploading this.

If you switch around the letters in his last name you get Villain. He's planning to take over the world with his mathematical knowledge and enslave all of humanity will spiders.

I can simply say about such geniuses: “a science fan”. Thank!!!

thank you so much

This guy so peculiar and fantastic at the same time

Remarkable powers of introspection

His talk on Nash at Ri is also great.

Brilliant talk.

I love this guy.

Not only a great lecture but also a relaxing asmr video

Very interesting guy who clearly radiates passion and enthusiasm for the science of math and the natural World.

I used to watch Donald in Mathematics Land (or whatever the title is in English) over and over again when I was a kid. You see, I didn't become a mathematician myself, but here I am watching this wonderful Bond villain -like guy talking about all this stuff. Makes me feel weird, but in a good sense.

I clicked on this strictly because of the bow tie.

Superb insight into the mind of a scientist.

This talk inspires me to be a mathematician.

What a great desk. Oh, and the math is pretty cool too

This helps more than school

Exceptionally good.

Superb

Good summary. I'm turning sixty and I want to review my old math books now.

Amazing and simple enumeration of the ingredients for birth of an idea. I have been mesmerized many a times on how the subconscious brain provides you those flashes that help you solve a problem which has been a cause for many a sleepless nights for me.

i love this man

Awesome

Great mind powerful you can sense it it 's like the sun ... Not boring very eluminating

i really have big respect for men like him because its sooo rare to see men like him in our time id like to see we may develop our education be better but even for my self hehehe im pretty dumb in math hheheeh but still i try my best hahaha

Interesting concepts, will try to apply them in coding.

We know that mathematicians do the ranking 2:00

1. documentation 2. motivation 3. environment/eco-system 4. communication 5. constraints 6. intuition and hard work 7. luck

The lack of beard makes him look disturbingly young. I came here from his interview on Numberphile, so my first time seeing him was with a nice scruffy beard, and by contrast this looks rather unnerving. Such a cool guy, though. Love the way he dresses, and how this is the only kind of outfit he ever seems to wear. XD

This is the second video I've watched of this gentleman giving a talk, and I like him even better this time. By the way, love the outfit! Great style. But next time he should add frilly cuffs! ;) I noticed that metal spider above his left breast pocket - awesome! I want one of those! :) I'm going to have to buy this book: "Birth of a Theorem"! A very good lecture. Thanks, RI! Rikki Tikki..

Genial!!

You got to love Mathematiques :)

I’ve just fallen in love. Cedric Villani you are my God, thank you for the inspiration given, I hope I’ll meet you one day.❤️

Listening all the time to prof. Villani that spider knows more than an average people!!

He looks like Descartes

Yet another beautiful and innocent mind!

start loving this guy... awesome spiderman.

modern day legend

at 50:00 he put in eloquent words what I always strongly believed in: the power of restriction. One of the many facets of such a principle is that as the western civilization is growing more permissive (and less restrictive), creativity is in sharp decline. I understand that many will be offended. I like to look at languages the same way: complicated languages tend to produce different brain wiring which allows for more complicated thoughts to be achieved. It's not a guarantee, but a possible pre-requisite.

Cedric Villani will inspire to be one of the great masters of mathematics of his time, no doubt. Easy to understand the organization of the thought process to contemplate the physical reasoning of simplicity. Of course most of science today and into the future picks up where others have theorized with added knowledge of interests and better tools of invention applied toward future possibilities. Yet all too often within collaboration recognizing either a problem of shared concerns or argument of point of observation that of abstract or concrete, Euclidean or non-Euclidean ; Newtonian or damping of acoustic plasma, whatever! There is always some knot that has to be untied and the rope used again to tie another knot. So let's try to recognize another problem within encryption and its freedom of privacy or number sequences to protect against hacking in P and NP computer logic and revamp without destructive interference of changing all the 0's to 1's. And simply consider the possibility that WITH IN NATURE the solution can be found. Either in fractals or particle physics that protons are being looked at as 1 quark "up" and two quarks "down", while a cast color of green NP 2 quarks up and hadron down. Intertwined ideas once over again encrypted around the electron; to preserve inherent freedom in respect to liberty. Those calculated random chaotic uncertainties can be used in an advantageous way and perhaps they are already modified. Being out of those loops of think tanks within science, how would I know, yet just thinking of what news we hear about cyber economical warfare, mathematicians and physicist at large must settle credit card fraud or electronic banking robberies before fear brings a world to unrest. Damping is still some form of 12 sheets of Pb throwing nickels at a steam roller, yet have we really found the infinite symbol applied in relationship to diatomic hydrogen?

What a character

Gotta love Professor Moriarty up there, but I think the spider pendant is a bit of a giveaway.

23:40 I remind you that Henri Poincaré discovered the pixel ( point carre in french)

Quelle élégance raffinée .

I have a question for Mr Villani, Is it possible to quantify ABTRACTNESS? and If yes, then how?. If no,then pourquoi?. Why not work on it ? I really feel like if work was pushed in thta direction, we may haveee plenty new stuff and results on how to better old and newer results to come. We will also easily know how they relate to other fields in which application may be possible?

A question to Cédric Villani. Programming or Software design is the newest science, skill, technology or engineering that wasn't there before. How do I suggest or advise a student when he asks me 'what should I concentrate on to become a software professional? '. Is it Mathematics, Heuristics, Combinatorics, (information theoretic) Engineering & technology, Physics or whatever. A successful software professional leaves his software package with no 'bug' whatsoever & all other of his professionals finding it easy to follow.

It's about translation of information into motivation! Look up flow states 😃

I like this guy

To clarify the jumbled ideas into a base line of construct: is the diatomic hydrogen. This is in response to Cedric Villani constraints around plasma dampening.. If one atom of hydrogen is derived as a proton in the inside and the electron on the outer orbit, the other hydrogen coupled diatomic ally is then that the other paired electron representing density; while the proton is ascribed in an orbit, so as two hydrogen atoms are refractively neutral while holding 2 dimensional bonds. Covalent loose bonds or ionic of a stronger are set in motion to compound with other elements within building blocks of complexity. The hydrogen base line within a building block theory is to consider two differentials of thought. Is the thesis to be of energy or is of matter within controlling the directional outcome of three dimensional matter or three phases of energy. Thus to designate a ground and suspendedness of phases within energy is referred to as stepping up or stepping down current or voltage within deltas and wye configured, as relay within electricity and its conductive efficiency throughout the lineated distance. Yet the power plant generating the electrostatic toward the consumer down the road are basic in keeping two phases suspended and tripping the ground as grid into the distance for conductivity. The other theory within matter is of two phases or even dimensions grounded into density as of a mineral generator producing a mineral vein. So in the smallest coulomb of charge within static that the hydrogen atom and its common diatomic duality is at the focus point of either energy or matter in density or gravity; ‘lead or lag” formula. If on one hand one wants to be compatible to electrostatic energy it is two quarks “up” and one quark “down” and if on the other hand if matter is the desired outcome, its two quarks “down” and one phase of quark “up”. Now let’s say within all complexity of both reactant designs being compounded into a matrix or lattice that code is as code begins and ends within processing sequences. So if: one starts a reaction intended to be an outcome of energy it’s configured into wyes and deltas for energy measurements. Yet with real crypto of mineral matter weighed within the action of the hydrogen bonds refractive and inclined with only reflective being suspended within a spherical gravity, that real crypto is not as what the world is leading into today of special Pb slugs being electroplated to shine on both sides heads or tails of reflective anti-matter for the intent of measuring at the meter,. Yet real worth is still the results with nature into crystalline growth of mineral resultants still precious and pure. So take your choice between energy and/or matter carefully in decisions of crypto currencies. Either they are of simple bubbles of energy theories that need to be recycled out of garbage and junk vs. real resultants of fine gems of gold and silver of what was intent throughout antiquity. The baseline within an economic environment of past currencies and new regulations may be cheapening the worth of what society is supposed to strive toward. If damaged goods are still peddled off with what ends up as garbage and junk; rust and rot signals at some point only favoring networks, the need to mineral align back with nature within a balance pH or else within the long count of galactic Baktun proportions, we will once again find our next “Ice Age” locked onto this planet for 6000 yrs. Waiting for a spring deluge to wash away past efforts of what may have been a crop of inhabitants leading only by energy examples.l of recklace powerplays.

The process of optimization of "the sum of all histories"... It's hard work. An "enlightened" re-vision of Universal circumstances around the fundamental methodology of mathematical conceptions that are composed of rigous thought experiments, in tune with available potential possibilities, and may be confirmed by appropriate physical arrangements of Quantum Fields Modulation Mechanism QM-Time Principle In-form-ation.., meaning a mathematical analysis module/model of rigorous thinking about the elemental components of Actuality.., could be fabricated from available techniques and technology, rather than the other way around, as has been assumed to be normal practice. Real world activity is always a combination of both but it's not usually taught to Students without a demarcation between Pure Mathematics and Physics. Prof Villani is the Teacher who combines the actual skills.

disclose mathematician is interested in process or disclose the process itself is really good.

"...fighting with the unknown all the time.."-Cédric Villani

i like his sense of fashion

Thug life, what an inspirational speaker. If only every teacher in the world was like this guy

and so on and so forth

When I learn french I'll definitively read the book, just have to think about how to remember my future self of such...

The spider is just the fancy touch.

i like the little hints in the speech (e.g. look at the spiders legs)

55:49 nice from you as a mathematician

Huh. Fecundation. I don't remember ever hearing that word. Thought I knew it's meaning contextually, but I had to look it up. Math talk. I learn a term from biology. Ain't LIFE grand! 29:04

Glad to see Emo Philips has a second career.