![]() ![]() ![]() Step inside the magical world of Cedric Villani. Blending science with history, biography with myth, Villani conjures up an inimitable cast: the omnipresent Einstein, mad genius Kurt Godel, and Villani's personal hero, John Nash. ![]() Of ordinary family life blurring with the abstract world of mathematical physics, of theories and equations that haunt your dreams and seeking the elusive inspiration found only in a locked, darkened room. ![]() His story is one of courage and partnership, doubt and anxiety, elation and despair. In 2010, French mathematician Cdric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof which he devised with. Where and how does inspiration strike?Cedric Villani takes us on a mesmerising adventure as he wrestles with the Boltzmann equation - a new theorem that will eventually win him the most coveted prize in mathematics and a place in the mathematical history books.Īlong the way he encounters obstacles and setbacks, losses of faith and even brushes with madness. The function of a mathematician is to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. "This man could plainly do for mathematics what Brian Cox has done for physics" - Sunday TimesHow does a genius see the world? Birth of a Theorem by Cédric Villani, 2015, Bodley Head, 272 pp, ISBN: 978-1847922526, £18.99. ![]()
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