The Fields Medal (with Cédric Villani) - Numberphile
Cédric Villani won the Fields Medal in 2010. You can learn more in his excellent book Birth of a Theorem. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More ...
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CÉDRIC VILLANI: This... is a Fields Medal. In a way it's the dream of mathematicians, but we would never say it openly. It would be considered as… …very outrageous. And… the best thing you have to do to get the Fields Medal is to do some good work, and not thinking about it. BRADY HARAN: And for anyone watching, this is Professor Villani's Fields Medal — you won this. CÉDRIC VILLANI: Yes. But my name is there very discreet, you know? Here is the date: 2010. And here is my name. It's very small, because… You know… We mathematicians are small in front of the mathematical accomplishment. This is pure gold. And this is Archimedes. Maybe the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The inscriptions here are in Greek and Latin language. [reading inscrip...
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CÉDRIC VILLANI: This... is a Fields Medal. In a way it's the dream of mathematicians, but we would never say it openly. It would be considered as… …very outrageous. And… the best thing you have to do to get the Fields Medal is to do some good work, and not thinking about it. BRADY HARAN: And for anyone watching, this is Professor Villani's Fields Medal — you won this. CÉDRIC VILLANI: Yes. But my name is there very discreet, you know? Here is the date: 2010. And here is my name. It's very small, because… You know… We mathematicians are small in front of the mathematical accomplishment. This is pure gold. And this is Archimedes. Maybe the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The inscriptions here are in Greek and Latin language. [reading inscrip...
