Fields Medal laureate Cedric Villani is one of many characters in director Olivier Peyon’s portrait of modern-day mathematicians. By Jordan Mintzer Anyone who’s suffered through a high school algebra ...

Margaret Harris reviews Birth of a Theorem by Cédric Villani Between the early spring of 2008, when he began working on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation, and the summer of 2010, when he won a ...

Mathematicians tend to conjure images of ill-fitting pants and pen protectors, but one fashionable genius is changing that equation, at the same time his theories are adding efficiency to global ...