This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED conferences.
Cédric Villani is a world-renowned mathematician, one of the best specialists of the equations of the kinetic theory of gases and plasmas and optimal transport. Former student of the École Normale Supérieure of Paris, he received the Fields Medal - the most prestigious award of the mathematical world - in 2010. Having held positions in Atlanta, Berkeley, Princeton and the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon from 2000 to 2009, he is currently a professor at the University of Lyon and director of the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris. Outstanding populariser of science, he loves to share his passion with enthusiasm and humour.
Recorded at TEDxParis on October 6, 2012 at the Olympia. More at tedxparis.com/
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