AUTHOR PROFILE: CEDRIC VILLANI
At the Edinburgh Book Festival? Try getting tickets for the Cedric Villani event today! Prolific writer and mathematician Villani specialises in partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics.
The trilingual author was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal in 2010 for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation. He described the development of his theorem in his autobiographical book Théorème vivant published by Grasset in 2012 and in English translation as Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure in 2015 by Random House.
Villani is quite a character and with his eccentric dress sense it's undoubtedly going to be a highly entertaining event!