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IST Austria Lecture "Of triangles, gases, prices and men" by Cédric Villani

On November 6, 2014, Cédric Villani gave his IST Lecture titled "Of triangles, gases, prices and men". Villani is Professor at the University of Lyon, and has been Director of the Institut Henri Poincaré (CNRS/UPMC) in Paris since 2009. Villani received various awards, including the Fields Medal in 2010, and was involved in the popularization of mathematics. As a specialist in mathematical analysis, Villani performed most of his research on statistical mechanics and the theory of optimal transport. He participated in the discovery of unexpected links between Boltzmann's famous notion and entropy, the Monge-Kantorovich theory of transporting at least cost, and the curvature in non-Euclidean geometry. In his IST Lecture, Cédric Villani talked about this discovery, insisting on the human process of research.