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Cédric Villani

French mathematician
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Cédric Villani (born October 5, 1973, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France) is a French mathematician and politician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010 for his work in mathematical physics. Villani studied mathematics at the École Normale Supériere in Paris. He received a master’s degree in numerical analysis from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in 1996 and a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Paris Dauphine in 1998. From 2000 to 2010 he was...

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