The Fields Medal (with Cédric Villani) - Numberphile 

+TheShattubatu And the Spider he wears can come to life when he wishes to

+Manuel Catz haha, man, that was kind of a cute touch

He is a mathemagician.

+TheShattubatu villani isnt his real last name, its actually diggory ;)

+Callum Manson Yeah he must have had to change it to avoid suspicion

Indeed

+El Torco He seems like a proper gentleman.

his so intelligent

+jesusthroughmary He's French. Of course, he's a gentlemen.

90% of the French are complete assholes.

He's now minister 😯

@@aybrokemyback6739 really?

@@vinayvardhanyt2415 yup, French culture minister I guess I mean he was few years ago, I don't know if he's still

Thomas le no he works to Paris city hall

@@vianneyedie4066 mauvais Anglais mon gars ..tu peut faire mieux

+mrZbozon Breaking new ! A "More Villanni" button appears at the end of the video and allows you to see more of this guy !

+Hamster Furtif What's your point?

mrZbozon My point is that you can actually see more of this guy by clicking on the link provided in the video. Timecode is 9:33.

+Hamster Furtif Yes and that has nothing to do with what I'm saying. I was quite aware of that already. I was leaving feedback to show that if even more content was made I would watch that too.

mrZbozon Okay, my mistake then.

+rodluvan1976 Yes, that really is a nice way of putting it.

+Luca Grafenhorst Be respectful. He's well-decorated, and spends his life improving the world you live in. A genius.

Afro Faust I wasn't being sarcastic, he really has a light of his own.

+Afro Faust No need to be cynical. He was being respectful.

AureliusEnterprises I would offer you also that there's no need to restate what he himself replied with :)

Surely Unity

Haha ! xD

Ahahaha

@@horowirtz9415 go reach your dreams

@@PersimmonHurmo thanks but how do you know what my dreams are?

He's now running for the Paris election, and he's a member of the parlement for 2 years now. That's an other way to solve problem i guess :')

Epic comment i can really hear him saying that!!

@@TheDerHeld epic gamer moment

I think that day will never come. Now, he dedicates to politics

false.

Unlikely, he's dumped mathematics for politics and philosophy.

+Ben Luijcx very souvenir

xD

yesss

That part made me laugh so hard. It made him sound even more like a stereotypical Frenchman. XD

+NoriMori ikr!!

+Defeshh Brady is like the Louis Theroux of RU-vid honestly

Actually it should be writhen on his tombstone. It's the kind of true humbelness of a great accivment. I don't think you need to be humble with a Fieldsmedal, but when you say this things you probably are truly!

"we politicians are the sole reason behind the accomplishment"

Strong words of humbleness and a show of love and interest in the field.

I don't know. But maybe people who are passionate about their job don't care that much about social conventions

+stuartrockin "1 lab accident away from turning into Doc Brown". I literally lol'ed. Maybe having an interesting perspective on life aids in solving difficult mathematical problems simply because they are more able to look at the problems in a different way?

It's pretty common that the cleverest people can be the oddest, maybe it's thier way of questioning, why should I be normal when I have such an understanding of the universe? I should wear a spider on my shirt today, yeahhhhhh

It's the numbers. There's just so many.

+stuartrockin In order to see the things that no-one's ever seen before, you need to be looking with a different set of eyes. That is, if you think like everyone else, then you'll come to much the same conclusions as everyone else. Because your thoughts lead you to the same places that everyone else goes. But if you think differently, you see the problems differently. You see it with different eyes. You come up with new previously-unthought-of solutions. You see the things that other people don't see - and, of course, all new discoveries must necessarily live in that uncharted space, or someone would have seen them and discovered it already. Logical, yes? Well, that's my theory on why genius - not just mathematical genius, but all genius, in fact - does tend to be a little weird and eccentric around the edges. I think it's all rather awesome. Homogeneity is, frankly, very boring. Tedious, even. Vive la difference! ;D

+Art Artsen He always has it. It's like its "thing", its symbol. We recognize and talk about him by referring to its spider

+Bloubz77

How many spiders has he got ?

Welcome to Cedric Villani's world !!

Around 30

I was having a similar thought. XD For the first few seconds I was put off because I thought his accent was pretentious, but then it panned up, and I took it all in, and I was like, "...Oh my God, this guy was transplanted from the 18the century AND I LOVE IT." I love people who are really different and eccentric in a very authentic way; they are such a joy to behold.

@@NoriMori1992 I know this comment is two years old but how can a person's natural accent be pretentious? Do you just not like the French accent?

Pretty sure his outfit is more 19th century

@@Gooberpatrol66 Never let facts get in the way of a beautiful theory.

+mipmipmipmipmip Yeah, that's the one ! Thank you, George W. Bush !

Lol!

Lol

I'm almost certain he said "study"

@@vibraphonics no Albert is correct he says "c'est à dire" which means "in other words"

@@gchelem I can't even find it in the video now

Tim James You’re right he says « study of »

it means "i.e."

Lol

Only a small mind like mine can appreciate a giant gold coin.

@@theyoutubeuser6797 Lol

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

My thoughts exactly. XD

P Hampton Sounds right.

Except he would be even smarter relatively because he has more than 100 years of math knowledge no one on the planet has at that time.

+micosair THAT is a challenge...

that would be pretty hard...

Finding Perelman is one thing. Getting him to agree to appear on camera is the _real_ challenge.

Why would Perelman show off on some RU-vid when he probably knows how to control the universe...

ZiGO LT Perelman can warp space and time

+ben middleton comparing someone with sherlock holmes is always a compliment

+ben middleton he's planing some dirty stuff with professor Moriarty.

CastelDawn my thoughts exactly!

that would be an awesome story. Someone write it.

In fact he DOES weave mischievious plots with a notorious supervillain

Ooooooo spooky

Wot?

He is indeed a humble guy

+Olomorn Crazy?

+Florain Bially "odd" is more appropriate i guess. His way of speaking is not very usual, but it's cool I think ^^

+Olomorn Cedric is not crazy at all, it feels like every single answers he gives have been worked on a lot when in fact he only thinks for a couples of seconds. He choose words really wisely.

Bastien Etchegoyen Yeah, that's what i said, it's more odd than crazy. I really respect him, it's just not usual ^^

+Jérôme he didn't mean way of speaking as the accent, but rather as the word he chose and so on i think

+oldcowbb bingo, that's it.

Well if you think he does, then he does.

Or like guy Fawkes.

+Axe Sovax +1

Are you saying all Frenchmen look the same? ;)

Dano Byrne Who wouldn't

Boooo

well yea

Yeah my math teacher showed it me ... I don't do math anymore

It should be "Why I hate maths" (explanation/announcement) rather than "Why do I hate maths" (question) I think. (The question would be "Pourquoi est-ce que je deteste les maths" if memory serves - right?)

Are you satisfied?

+mitsterful same here!

he needs a haircut tho

YES!!! I noticed this as well.

just like mathematics

he just don't speak english Xd

+shomolya Oh, awesome! Thank you!

+Waris Amir Mohammad Hey buddy, I think you've got the wrong door, the leather club's two blocks down.

I laughed way too much reading your comment.

+Waris Amir Mohammad Rock gym. He has an Onyx and a Geodude

Some bug type gym probably.

I feel like he would either use grass or dark/ghost pokemon

Maybe you should get the fields medal

Non, il dit « study of ».

Tout à fait, merci @@D0rlisok

aucun souci :) bonne journée@@estebanmartin7491

+anon8109 I think part of the purpose of a prize is not so much for the winners themselves as for the audience. We want to inspire young people to pursue math and sciences, and applauding the accomplishments of mathematicians that accomplish something great is a great way to give those young people inspiration.

I don't think this guy suddenly has a big ego because he won a prize.

The idea of the prize is to strike more of a formality with the society and politicians. As he said already, it is not much about the crowning achievement as it is for recognition from community. Once you get the medal you get a lot of doors opened for media etc. This is the chance where someone can tell his intricate story and invite the public to be more aware of the science and funding issues. This guy in particular is just great from all point of views. In a way he reminds me of (although polish but with french mannerism) Chopin.

+Crashh nonono that is not true. americans care much more about science and maths then we do.

well they might have more funds in physics or other sciences, but if one country is about math, it is france. Juste look at the number of french field's medal compared to the size of the country. And the Ecole Normale Superieure might just be the best place in the world to study this subject (Villani, Connes, Serre, Yokoz and many more went there). But Villani is the only mathematician to have such a public recognition I think

Its probably the Navier-stokes problem that he is after, as its closer to his specialty

I think he was more saying that his interests are elsewhere. His interest seems to be in the world of continuous/applied mathematics - perturbation theory, differential equations and plasma physics - rather than in the relatively discrete world of the Riemann hypothesis.

And btw what a nice guy.

MichaelKingsfordGray are you a mathematician?