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. Along the way he encounters obstacles and setbacks, losses of faith and even brushes with madness. In mathematics, as in any creative work, it is the thinker's whole life that propels discovery-and with Birth of a Theorem, Cédric Villani welcomes you into his."This man could plainly do for mathematics what Brian Cox has done for physics" - Sunday Times How does a genius see the world? 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. Villani shares his favorite songs, his love of manga, and the imaginative stories he tells his children. You're privy to dining-hall conversations at the world's greatest research institutions.
You join him in unproductive lulls and late-night breakthroughs. Villani's diaries, e-mails, and musings enmesh you in the process of discovery. It doesn't simplify or overexplain rather, it invites readers into a collaboration. It invites readers inside the mind of a great mathematician as he wrestles with the most important work of his career.īut you don't have to understand nonlinear Landau damping to love Birth of a Theorem.
Birth of a Theorem is Villani's own account of the years leading up to the award. In 2010, the French mathematician Cédric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof that he devised with his close collaborator Clément Mouhot to explain one of the most surprising theories in classical physics. University of Toronto Schools Technology Supplies.University of Toronto Schools Stationery.Toronto Prep School Technology Supplies.Toronto Prep School Merch & Gym Uniforms.Ontario Institute - Studies in Education Villanis book Thorme vivant (2012), published in English translation as Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure (2015), is an impressive tapestry of.Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education.
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