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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

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A mathematician's humorous and charming personal account of his eighteen-month journey to winning the Fields Medal.
Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Nonfiction

Cédric Villani—the Lady Gaga of mathematics, as he has been called—was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal in recognition of a proof he and his former student Clément Mouhot devised to explain one of the most baffling phenomena in contemporary physics. In Birth of a Theorem, Villani evokes the highly pers...