In mathematics, as in any creative work, it is the thinker’s whole life that propels discovery-and with Birth of aTheorem, Cédric Villani welcomes you into his.
Villani shares his favorite songs, his love of manga, and the imaginative stories he tells his children. You’re privy to the dining-hall conversations at the world’s greatest research institutions. You join him in unproductive lulls and late-night breakthroughs. Villani’s diaries, emails, and musings enmesh you in the process of discovery. But you don't have to understand nonlinear Landau damping to love Birth of a Theorem. It invites readers inside the mind of a great mathematician as he wrestles with the most important work of his career. It doesn’t simplify or overexplain rather, it invites readers into collaboration. Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure By Cdric Villani Bodley Head, 2pp, 18.99 and 10.99 ISBN 97818479225448156573 (e-book) Published 5 March 2015 The author Mathematics is not, says Cdric Villani, the same everywhere. 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. Birth of a Theorem is Villani's own account of the years leading up to the award.
It invites readers inside the mind of a great mathematician as he wrestles with the most important work of his career.But you don’t have to understand nonlinear Landau damping to love Birth of a Theorem. Birth of aTheorem is Villani’s own account of the years leading up to the award. In 2010, French mathematician Cédric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof which he devised with his close collaborator Clément Mouhot to explain one of the most surprising theories in classical physics.
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