Until this year, Cédric Villani, Ph.D., was a world-class scholar, a man affectionately nicknamed “the Lady Gaga of French Mathematicians,” and the flamboyantly dressed genius behind the TED talk, ...

Mathematicians tend to conjure images of ill-fitting pants and pen protectors, but one fashionable genius is changing that equation, at the same time his theories are adding efficiency to global ...

Math is a laboratory for better thinking. That is the argument of Cedric Villani, one of the world’s most famous mathematicians. In 2010, at the age of 37, Villani won the Fields Medal, the equivalent ...

Cédric Villani is at the pinnacle of the math world. Winner of the Fields Medal—widely seen as the mathematicians’ equivalent of the Nobel Prize—the French scholar is an acknowledged giant in solving ...

At 42, mathematician Cédric Villani is something of a rock star. He is not just a prodigious mathematician – he won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, in 2010. Since then, he ...

Cédric Villani is one of France's top mathematicians, working across several fields of the discipline. He's won a number of titles and awards for his work. A professor at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ...

Cedric Villani, out campaigning to be the next mayor of Paris, was dressed in his trademark three-piece suit with pocket watch and spider brooch under his overcoat. “Don’t go changing,” a passerby ...

For Cédric Villani, mathematician and MP (ex-La République en marche), the reform of the baccalauréat (French high school curriculum) has exacerbated certain biases. Mr. Villani is concerned about the ...

Is a scientist in politics incongruous? Cédric Villani, Fields Medal winner and mayoral candidate, doesn’t think so. By Siobhan Roberts PARIS — On a Wednesday night in December, amid civic strife over ...