Cédric Villani
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in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France
October 05, 1973
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“Once again I had to put myself in a vulnerable position in order to become stronger.”
― Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
― Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
“I woke up with a start, a little after 5:30 in the morning, to that wonderful feeling that lasts only a fraction of a second, when you don’t know where you are—not even what continent you’re on! I jumped up from the futon and went over to my computer to make a note of the few fragments of the dream I could still hold on to before they completely melted away in the mind’s morning fog. The complexity and the confusion of the adventure put me in a good mood: I take such dreams as a sign that my brain is in good working order.”
― Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
― Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
“Mathematicians, like the poor Lady of Shalott in Tennyson’s Arthurian ballad, cannot look at the world directly, only at its reflection—a”
― Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
― Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
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