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Cédric Villani pays tribute to Henri Poincaré
Cédric Villani
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The year 2012 marks the centennial of the death of Henri Poincaré. With its partners, the Henri Poincaré Institute has decided to pay tribute to its eponymous mathematician by organising a series of events taking place throughout the year 2012. Cédric Villani will give a public lecture on 19 September in Lille. This lecture is an opportunity to create awareness among the general public of two major scientific revolutions that took place at the end of the 19th century.
Who is Cédric Villani ?
He is the director of the Henri Poincaré Institute and a professor at the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University. In 2010, he received the Fields Medal, the world’s highest distinction in mathematics, at the international congress of mathematics held in Hyderabad (India). A professor of mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon and director of the Henri Poincaré Institute (UPMC/CNRS), his research covers analysis, probabilities, statistical physics and, more recently, differential geometry. Cédric Villani has received prizes for his work on kinetic theory relating to the Boltzmann equation and on optimal transportation.
Henri Poincaré in the eyes of Cédric Villani :
"Henri Poincaré is not an immortal mathematician merely due to having been appointed to the Académie française, but so remains after one hundred years as a result of his immense efforts having contributed to laying the foundations of whole areas of science: chaos theory and dynamic systems, automorphic functions theory, topology, etc.
The range and diversity of his contributions are such that a full presentation of his work would quickly become an interminable inventory. Often seen as the last researcher to master all the mathematical sciences, he was also a physicist, engineer, astronomer and philosopher. Member of the most prestigious European academies of science, and adored by the French public, he embodies a universality to which modern science intensely aspires." Quoted from the blog Regards-citoyens.com
Keywords: Henri Poincaré Cédric Villani Inria Lille - Nord Europe research center
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