What's so sexy about math? | Cédric Villani

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  • @orinpemulus1441
    @orinpemulus1441 8 років тому +557

    He tells them he got the fields metal and no one claps. Jeez, that's one tough crowd.

    • @adip8
      @adip8 6 років тому +56

      Orin Pemulus They should be bowing down but they're too trivial.

    • @vibodhj349
      @vibodhj349 6 років тому +14

      Nah, they are Skeptics who do not bow to authority but to substance.

    • @holliswilliams7717
      @holliswilliams7717 5 років тому +54

      I doubt they even know what the Fields medal is.

    • @shivanshsoni4882
      @shivanshsoni4882 5 років тому +11

      They don’t know what it is lol

    • @nazhasabiri4825
      @nazhasabiri4825 4 роки тому

      tough a crowd but actually average joe who came in hear more stories about french wine and Moulin Rouge rather than Pointcarre and mathematics

  • @dunnyt1680
    @dunnyt1680 8 років тому +834

    I love watching people like this talk. So much passion

    • @roshsurana
      @roshsurana 8 років тому

      +Yung Omoishi 😂😂😂

    • @dunnyt1680
      @dunnyt1680 8 років тому +13

      +Yung Omoishi Sup m8

    • @lovefrombooks7
      @lovefrombooks7 8 років тому +15

      I highly recommend Numberphile. He's been in a few videos there, but they're all filled with incredible mathematicians who are super enthusiastic about what they do.

  • @musicjunkie8228
    @musicjunkie8228 8 років тому +1978

    To all the people complaining about his clothes and his accent: If you cannot focus on the message because you're too busy judging the mannerisms and appearances of the person delivering it, you're going to miss out on a lot in life. I get that his job includes sounding and looking as pleasing as possible, but not everyone with important things to say will appeal to you. If you're able to get rid of your prejudices and keep an open mind to what they're trying to say, you may just pick up something you did not know.

    • @monchosalce
      @monchosalce 8 років тому +61

      If I could I'll give you a cookie and a medal for that comment.

    • @Hyumanity
      @Hyumanity 8 років тому +8

      You are conscious. :)

    • @ajeetminhas7969
      @ajeetminhas7969 8 років тому +2

      He's a PUBLIC SPEAKER. A large part of his job is TO DRESS WELL AND SPEAK CLEARLY TO THE AUDIENCE.

    • @musicjunkie8228
      @musicjunkie8228 8 років тому +144

      Ajeet Minhas He's actually not. He's a mathematician who's just delivering one public speech. Whether you take something away from what he's sharing or not, it doesn't really affect his career. If you miss out on the message it's purely your loss.

    • @BP-jz3ok
      @BP-jz3ok 8 років тому +2

      I was hoping to see some comments on his talk, not a paragraph advising others!

  • @WYGTYA
    @WYGTYA 8 років тому +696

    It's a shame that english people find it so entertaining to mock french people speaking in English with an accent when their english is probably worse than this man. His words are well structured, it sounds appealing and even when he speaks in French, the way he uses his words.... It's beautiful.

    • @kronenburg4728
      @kronenburg4728 6 років тому +70

      A trilingual can speak 3 languages. A bilingual can speak 2 languages. Someone who speaks only one language is British.

    • @twangbarfly
      @twangbarfly 6 років тому +12

      I am an English speaker who has translated the words of this brilliant mathematician from French into English. You are wrong. The man is a genius and a wonderful speaker to boot and it was a complete pleasure to work on his text... British people are not entirely as ignorant as you imagine. But feel free to generalise wildly...

    • @wassiladakhlia5042
      @wassiladakhlia5042 6 років тому +1

      C'est donc vous qui avez vécu l'enfer de la traduction de son ouvrage Théorème vivant ?

    • @ramandiezo
      @ramandiezo 5 років тому +1

      @@kronenburg4728 Ha ha this is so true!

    • @___xyz___
      @___xyz___ 5 років тому +5

      @@kronenburg4728 You must mean American.

  • @notreal77
    @notreal77 7 років тому +154

    11:46 "1973 - obviously alive"
    i love him so much

  • @arasharfa
    @arasharfa 8 років тому +246

    - What's so sexy about math?
    - Cedric Villani!

    • @kmac499
      @kmac499 8 років тому +1

      - What's so sexy about math?
      Dr. Clio Creswell.. Look up her TedTalk..

    • @Oumayma_GuXiang
      @Oumayma_GuXiang 4 роки тому +1

      That's right 👏👏

  • @scowell
    @scowell 7 років тому +144

    Just love Cedric... he's old school. An authentic renaissance dude.

  • @SilverMiraii
    @SilverMiraii 8 років тому +201

    I like it when you work on a problem like a physics problem which obviously involves a lot of math as well, calculus, geometry, trig, algebra of course. And you get complicated with it, pages upon pages, and you need to keep track of everything, not to make a careless mistake, you go back and forward, look for things to substitute with other things, find relationships, manipulate equations until you solve for a thing, but you have too many unknowns so you manipulate this and that and substitute thins into that and all kinds of convoluted things, it's ugly. But then you feel like you're close to an answer, and boom, you get a simple, beautiful answer. Maybe you get an equation that makes everything make sense, and that you got from all this convoluted weirdness, the logical ideas you've learned in math, but once you applied them and were very careful all of the sudden it makes you understand a concept that otherwise would not make sense to you, it makes concepts in nature have intuitive sense, which you would otherwise not understand.
    This is why I like math, this is why I like physics.
    One advice I have to people who wanna learn math, physics, chemistry, or other sciences involving math, do not learn the formulas like poetry, understand the formulas, then you can make your own formulas. Mathematics is a way of thinking rather than formulas, sure, it's nice to have a formula worked by someone else, they did all the hard work, and here you have a simple thing you can apply and get your answer, like the quadratic formula, but if you actually derive it yourself, not only you get the satisfaction, but you get the understanding of it, an intuition, the logic behind it, math is all about logic, don't memorize formulas without understanding them, deriving and looking at proofs

    • @neildhan
      @neildhan 8 років тому +6

      Good words of advice.
      The quadratic formula is a fine example. I was surprised when I first saw how it comes about, surprised but also it made perfect sense. The Japanese word "naruhodo" is what I'd have said (were it explained to me by a Japanese person, not a book). It's kind of like "ahh, I see. Of course." =)
      Even years, and qualifications later, I sometimes write out the derivation of the quadratic formula.

    • @theflaggeddragon9472
      @theflaggeddragon9472 8 років тому +7

      Yes!
      Sometimes the things in math we take most for granted are hard to prove and understand; simple facts like the angles of a triangle add to 180 degrees, or the circumference over the diameter of a circle, pi, really is a constant.
      I hope to be a teacher one day, and I would make the proofs of these simple statements an exercise to test how much they really know, as opposed to how much the think they know. We are all guilty of it ourselves, taking simple and "obvious" principles for granted without truly understanding them.
      Recently, I set out to prove the second derivative test for multivariate functions, a theorem whose statement is unsightly and seemingly incomprehensible, but as I set about proving it, each piece became more and more clear, and now, I fully understand the theorem and it's implications, and I see that it is truly beautiful.
      Mathematics is a wonderful thing.

    • @ALiJ4LIFE
      @ALiJ4LIFE 8 років тому +3

      Beautiful comment, brilliantly sums up my journey with mathematics. Please write more!

    • @SilverMiraii
      @SilverMiraii 8 років тому +8

      Ali I think the first time I felt that is with the quadratic formula applied in collision physics, you use the conservation of energy and conservation of momentum, first way is for you to substitute your values with the conservation of energy and momentum, and then you arrive to two answers in parallel each with two unknowns, same unknowns, you substitute one into the other, but then you have one unknown appearing two times, it's basically in the form that asks for the quadratic formula, and then you can derive the quadratic formula and do it that way, it takes pretty long the whole exercise, but the point of it is to understand the step by step logical process. Because after this first way of solving it, instead of using values, you use constants, and then you arrive at a simple formula that works for everything, no longer requiring the quadratic formula.
      And one more thing, I can't remember the exact formulas and whatnot (might've made a mistake explaining) since I haven't used it for a while now, but I know for sure I can derive everything using conservation of energy and momentum, anytime I want it, and that's the beauty of it. Because I didn't just memorize the final simple formula, I understood the process.

  • @theothriller
    @theothriller 8 років тому +101

    Probably one of the most incredible mathematicians of this century

  • @enigma9306
    @enigma9306 8 років тому +61

    Villani had got to be the most inspirational mathematician around today, not to mention one of the absolute best.

  • @matbob_
    @matbob_ 5 років тому +21

    My heart beat accelerated and I became emotional at the hearing of "Take the second term to the other side, Fourier transform and invert in L2"...

  • @Paul-oi2wz
    @Paul-oi2wz 8 років тому +2139

    This is the most French man ever seen.

    • @ruaway
      @ruaway 8 років тому +300

      a real french man would not speak english: source : i'm french

    • @Monkeyshouts
      @Monkeyshouts 8 років тому +246

      Gary, n'est-ce pas un énoncé contradictoire ?

    • @ruaway
      @ruaway 8 років тому +154

      +Monkeyshouts touché

    • @Yourmom-dd3fh
      @Yourmom-dd3fh 8 років тому +74

      if you speak english then you speak french at 30%

    • @jmiquelmb
      @jmiquelmb 8 років тому +84

      Frenchiest person to ever French

  • @cptn_n3m012
    @cptn_n3m012 6 років тому +10

    Plus qu’un mathématicien ou qu’un maître de conférence, un génie d’une modestie incroyable, Monsieur Villani est capable de transmettre une passion, de transmettre l’amour pour les mathématiques. C’est ce qui fait de lui mon idole

  • @shadmansudipto7287
    @shadmansudipto7287 8 років тому +78

    Its cool how much passion this guy has

  • @marekartist8441
    @marekartist8441 8 років тому +235

    when you hear that voice in your head "take the second term to the other side, Fourier transform and invert in L2"

    • @shyofshyness
      @shyofshyness 5 років тому +2

      seriously.... outside of human knowledge being claimed

    • @mathieul5990
      @mathieul5990 5 років тому +42

      Every fucking morning

    • @tebogotselane952
      @tebogotselane952 4 роки тому +3

      this is the only source of 'discovery'... better aligned people staple on this ...

    • @missellenmartin4152
      @missellenmartin4152 4 роки тому

      Yes

    • @hushpapi1291
      @hushpapi1291 4 роки тому +8

      Glad im not the only one who hears that every morning

  • @valor36az
    @valor36az 5 років тому +39

    Excellent talk , my greatest regret is failing to understand that mathematics is about concepts and not calculations when I was younger

  • @rareroe305
    @rareroe305 8 років тому +59

    I love this guy. It's like learning from a chill Bond villain.

    • @LowHimari
      @LowHimari 8 років тому +1

      rareroe305 Exactly what i thought XD

  • @pvtkns0315
    @pvtkns0315 8 років тому +11

    i loves how people talks about something they loves. you can see in her/his ways of talking enthusiastically, also in her/his burning eyes :) it reminds me that there are still good and positivity in this world and forget about negativity at a moment :)

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb 8 років тому +1

      don't read the comment section if you still want to feel positive about the world

  • @alexdurand7633
    @alexdurand7633 5 років тому +16

    À quel moment vous vous permettez de critiquer son accent alors que son Anglais, sa prononciation et sa fluidité est vraiment très bonne.
    Respectez cette grande personne.

  • @viktoriadevenyik
    @viktoriadevenyik 5 років тому +17

    He's such a good lecturer, clean and interesting thoughts with enthuasism, I wish he was my Maths lecturer.

  • @michaelbauers8800
    @michaelbauers8800 8 років тому +157

    This guy is awesome. He's interesting, smart and has interesting things to say. This is the second video I have seen from him. Math is very pleasurable, and has offered me a lot of joy over the years. It's work though. You have to think, to spend time at it. I am not very good at math. I got a minor in it at college, and was probably a B student at best. But I have loved it most of my life. As a kid, I was once put into remedial math - true story. Because I am bad at arithmetic. I am slow at it, and make mistakes. But I found the concepts of math comparatively easy compared to my class mates. So don't let a bit of weakness stop you from studying and enjoying math.

    • @ck88777
      @ck88777 7 років тому

      Does your current career use a lot of math?

    • @imranq9241
      @imranq9241 4 роки тому +2

      You should continue your studies more formally. After all your years of self-study, you are probably much better than your school days.

    • @erikhalvorseth3950
      @erikhalvorseth3950 3 роки тому

      Well said, Michael. I dont even have minor in math, but apart from that your description is more or less me :)

  • @ChrisLeeW00
    @ChrisLeeW00 8 років тому +480

    I'm not surprised many French are good at math, their word for 90 is basically "4 twenties-ten"

    • @kevinseverine2528
      @kevinseverine2528 7 років тому +33

      Which does not make any sense, even for the french person I am :D

    • @bastienthibaud9602
      @bastienthibaud9602 7 років тому +72

      Actually, there are some reasons.
      In fact, after the French revolution in 1789, the world start to count in base 10.
      Before, French people used to count in base 12 and long before, in base 20.
      English language also carries this very legacy : you say "twelve" which makes absolutely no sense currently. Base 12 then base 10.
      Same in German "zwölf", "dreizhen". Base 12 then base 10.
      French has kept both base 10 and base 20.
      Belgium and French-Swiss say "nonante" (ninety) whereas we say "quatre-vingt-dix" (4*20+10) in France.

    • @whytortureiswrong
      @whytortureiswrong 7 років тому +32

      It's a bit old-fashioned, but it's completely possible to say "four score and ten" in English. Abraham Lincoln began his famous Gettysburg Address, in 1863, with the phrase "Four score and seven years ago", which means "87 years ago" (he was referring to 1776, of course).

    • @vibodhj349
      @vibodhj349 6 років тому

      @Bastien Thibaud Thank you for this enlightening comment.

    • @TroX30540
      @TroX30540 5 років тому +2

      In fact it makes sense, 4*20+10=90 so

  • @yassinebelmouden1271
    @yassinebelmouden1271 5 років тому +7

    I remember when i was in school ,i solved a difficult problem i was proud of my self for a long time ,i will give evry thing to have this feeling again

  • @uyscuti6767
    @uyscuti6767 8 років тому +38

    Cedric Villani : un pur symbole du genie humain ! Thanks for this amazing video TED !!

  • @americossack3870
    @americossack3870 8 років тому +124

    He looks like he teaches Arithmacy in Hogwarts.

  • @XD8DISTURBED8XD
    @XD8DISTURBED8XD 8 років тому +183

    The tie so nice he wore it twice.

    • @TheSaga1080
      @TheSaga1080 8 років тому +11

      It's actually a Lavallière ;) And I agree, this kind of ties is nice :3

    • @XD8DISTURBED8XD
      @XD8DISTURBED8XD 8 років тому +7

      Mr. Grine
      I figured it wasn't a tie tie. I just like to rhyme.

    • @loisewilliam9515
      @loisewilliam9515 8 років тому

      lol

    • @TheSaga1080
      @TheSaga1080 8 років тому +1

      So do I, everything is fine ;)

    • @Clembo
      @Clembo 8 років тому

      It's a cravat. Bastardised French fashion.

  • @worldwarZisaprophecy
    @worldwarZisaprophecy 8 років тому +81

    This guy looks like Rene Descartes hopped in a time machine and decided to come to the present to give a ted talk

    • @lucretia2000
      @lucretia2000 4 роки тому

      I was thinking the same thing!

  • @ReddoX30
    @ReddoX30 6 років тому +5

    This man is amazing, and his speech equally so!
    He showed us that mathematics are at the core of everything we do, and it's not so useless as we thought in school!

  • @BrianAnderson-7
    @BrianAnderson-7 8 років тому +58

    Beautiful TED talk ;) Thanks Mr. Villani!

  • @AnkitaYadav-hp9vx
    @AnkitaYadav-hp9vx 8 місяців тому

    Charisma, intelligence, dedication, passion for what he is doing even in his sleep, dresses in an eccentric way (which is far better than to have a common imposed personality) and is able to speak understandable English sooo much inspiring.

  • @seanehle8323
    @seanehle8323 7 років тому +10

    That reference to Dream from the Sandman series was so apt.
    Well played, sir.

  • @othetop
    @othetop 8 років тому +413

    this is an ad for the new Assassin Creed movie

  • @gugusse3110
    @gugusse3110 7 років тому +131

    Fun fact: This guy is now a French politician, as he got elected as a member of the Parliament for the party of the presidential majority.

    • @steliostoulis1875
      @steliostoulis1875 6 років тому +4

      SimplyHugo SERIOUSLY?

    • @armen96
      @armen96 6 років тому

      yes

    • @ElliotQ
      @ElliotQ 5 років тому +6

      he wants to be mayor of Paris now x)

    • @ElliotQ
      @ElliotQ 5 років тому +8

      @@yuanfrank8075 he is macronist, so he is more liberal ... That he continues to do maths, not politics x)

    • @joories
      @joories 5 років тому +2

      @@yuanfrank8075 Anne Hildago is not Liberal at all, she is from the socialist party so she is quite the opposite of a Liberal

  • @oldcowbb
    @oldcowbb 8 років тому +138

    80% of comment talking about his accent, race, and dressing, seriously youtube?

    • @sephgeodynamics9246
      @sephgeodynamics9246 7 років тому +5

      you realize that 80% of people are dickheads just now ? Really ? :p

    • @arthurbernardocoopi6540
      @arthurbernardocoopi6540 7 років тому +2

      Seph Geodynamics
      Maybe its 40% but they comment 500% more

    • @Andromediens
      @Andromediens 7 років тому +5

      Don't ever expect to see intelligent people on youtube.
      That's one of the rules.

    • @remimartins2152
      @remimartins2152 7 років тому +1

      Smart people on youtube just switch To another video when it's over. No time To lose writing comments... ( how To admit i'm not smart )

    • @jercki72
      @jercki72 5 років тому

      @@arthurbernardocoopi6540 exactly

  • @superawesomecaptainmcfluff9506
    @superawesomecaptainmcfluff9506 8 років тому +178

    Hey Cedric! Numberphile fans says Hi! :)

  • @Trunks47r786
    @Trunks47r786 8 років тому +5

    I saw you on Numberphile. You won a Field's Medal. You're amazing.

  • @CatsCoffeeGuitars
    @CatsCoffeeGuitars 8 років тому +7

    This guy is so ingenious, I love his pure scientific mindset!

  • @mrcommonsense9145
    @mrcommonsense9145 2 роки тому

    I adore how happy this chap is talking about maths. Your passion for your craft is marvelous. Bravo sir.

  • @DeoMachina
    @DeoMachina 8 років тому +60

    C É D R I C
    This is the Carl Sagan of maths, no exaggaration

  • @nesshingakusei6932
    @nesshingakusei6932 8 років тому +1

    I usually have problems following a person if his accent is way too weird for me to understand his words. But I never had any problems with this guy.
    He is an absolute delight to listen - the popular math lectures as well the technical lectures. especially his technical lectures

  • @michalkubecka9045
    @michalkubecka9045 5 років тому +7

    80% of comments talking about comments about his accent, clothing...
    0% of comments talking about his accent or clothing

  • @patrickt.4121
    @patrickt.4121 Рік тому +1

    Love Cédric. At my own Mickey-mouse level, I've had this experience: solving pages and pages of math in my dreams, saying to myself "when you wake up, write it all down right away", waking up, grabbing pen and paper and writing frantically, managing to recreate the first page from my dreams, getting stuck, going back to sleep and being able to resume the calculations in my sleep. Pretty unbelievable. That ended up being one of the chapters of my thesis. The day humanity discovers how to harvest the power of our dreams, great discoveries will be made!

  • @vorlonagent
    @vorlonagent 8 років тому +45

    4:35. This guy quoted Sandman, a mid-1980s comic book.
    A wonderful mid-1980s comic book by a wonderful writer.
    But it was unexpected.

  • @housespock3438
    @housespock3438 7 років тому +6

    I'd like to hear some people of the comments speak french just to witness their PERFECT accent.

  • @lantenoy965
    @lantenoy965 7 років тому +17

    J'adore ce mec, il parle peut être anglais avec un fort accent mais j'admire sa passion et son travail. Par contre je déteste voir tous les commentaires des ces américains arrogants qui ne parlent que de son accent et de ses fringues. On croirait que les américains ne supportent pas de voir que la splendeur française existe bel et bien.

    • @comedebreuille5396
      @comedebreuille5396 7 років тому

      c'est pas parce que les gens écrivent des commentaires en anglais qu'ils sont américains.... -_-

    • @lantenoy965
      @lantenoy965 7 років тому

      Beaucoup d'entre eux sont américains.

    • @wassiladakhlia5042
      @wassiladakhlia5042 6 років тому

      La plupart sont français si vous faites attention.

    • @jean4j_
      @jean4j_ 5 років тому +2

      C'est des français qui critiquent ... Comme toujours ...
      De plus son anglais est parfait, c'est juste une histoire d'accent

  • @happyd6145
    @happyd6145 4 роки тому +2

    I'm a Masters degree student of Mathematics from India...i admire this gentleman a lot !!!

  • @runchadero5802
    @runchadero5802 7 років тому +9

    Tengo una increíble admiración por Cédric Villani, gran motivación para mí

  • @kartimohamedamine9339
    @kartimohamedamine9339 6 років тому +1

    I can do everything to be a student for this big person !! Even if i sleep in streets he makes me cry

  • @sitrakamatthieu
    @sitrakamatthieu 7 років тому +48

    hé ho ça ose se foutre de la gueule de Villani mais en attendent la plus part de ceux qui critiquent ne seraient même pas résoudre une équation du second degré.

    • @thekikoooo4368
      @thekikoooo4368 7 років тому

      Brising Conan pire ils ne saurait même pas comment appliqué le théorème de Pythagore ou faire une étude de fonction

    • @lantenoy965
      @lantenoy965 7 років тому +4

      Ça me fend le cœur de voir tous ces cons d'anglophones se foutre de notre gueule c'est révoltant.

    • @Raisonnance.
      @Raisonnance. 5 років тому

      Mdr j'en ai rien à foutre. J'adore notre accent français quand on parle anglais, ça nous rend différent même si c'est pas forcément agréable à entendre ahaha. De toute façon il serait même pas capable de faire mieux en français.

    • @nazhasabiri4825
      @nazhasabiri4825 4 роки тому

      @@lantenoy965 soyez en fier...ses anglophones a part Paris, froooomaage et bagueete ils savent pas grand chose autre en francais

    • @nazhasabiri4825
      @nazhasabiri4825 4 роки тому

      La plus part ne savent meme pas ce qu est une equation et vont se coincer a 7 x 6=

  • @vicioussyd6870
    @vicioussyd6870 7 років тому +1

    this guy is a truly remarkable mathematic communicater from now on his voice will be my internal monologue

  • @ragnkja
    @ragnkja 8 років тому +5

    Remember: Archimedes's "Eureka" moment would not have been nearly as profound without the confusion, perplexity and frustration leading up to it.

  • @goerizal1
    @goerizal1 5 років тому +1

    i really loves this great professor - he has the least insulting arrogance of a genius.

  • @rohanpandey2037
    @rohanpandey2037 8 років тому +92

    Was this guy on a numberphile video? He looks familiar...

  • @jamiedimon7681
    @jamiedimon7681 5 років тому +1

    He taught me more about statistics in 5 minutes with that example than I learned in a year at university.

  • @Adel-zv1nr
    @Adel-zv1nr 7 років тому +24

    Which regeneration of the doctor is he ?

  • @rayenochi7729
    @rayenochi7729 8 років тому +105

    me reading the title: "what's sexy about math"
    me answering: "hmmm. 69 duuuhh"

    • @ibhopirlwhocares6654
      @ibhopirlwhocares6654 8 років тому +1

      mao pewdiepie xoxo dorlotine chabaouanka dibilibatooounkinokuatarimokufalaputagrekasifodiyasamounotabilaminoruteskandafalamatabradimakoasemfordminaladoramilokuteramnipuka

    • @liangbowen
      @liangbowen 6 років тому

      hahahahha

  • @kevinxin1545
    @kevinxin1545 8 років тому +15

    Saw this guys on Numberphile. He's awesome.

  • @endingalaporte
    @endingalaporte 8 років тому +1

    4:35 Why it can't be another curve? [...] Replacing a beautiful coincidence by a beautifull explaination. That is science !!

  • @charles1598
    @charles1598 7 років тому +3

    I love the comment on 15:10 "a day that I will remember until I live" :D

  • @josephivernel2078
    @josephivernel2078 5 років тому +1

    16:12 that thank you is legendary 😂😂😂 people were like « wow that was abrupt, should we applause? » 😂😂

  • @davidjericho4815
    @davidjericho4815 7 років тому +4

    What a fantastic human being this is!

  • @danielslilaty
    @danielslilaty 8 років тому +1

    I love the comment he made that "mathematics can make us go beyond our intuition."

  • @mikolajnowak3532
    @mikolajnowak3532 5 років тому +4

    I can imagine him playing some super evil villain in James Bond genre. Especially under his own name. And with his pet spider. :)

  • @marshmelows
    @marshmelows 8 років тому +1

    I really like to hear Cecil speak, he always speaks right and well, what a great man he is :)

  • @saintcelab3451
    @saintcelab3451 8 років тому +265

    What is it that French people do better than any other? Speaking French

    • @Yourmom-dd3fh
      @Yourmom-dd3fh 8 років тому +15

      they took lead of England for decades and better than english ppl

    • @denjam2423
      @denjam2423 8 років тому

      Is there somebody to contest that?

    • @jmiquelmb
      @jmiquelmb 8 років тому +11

      The Quebecois. They're probably Frenchier than the French

    • @denjam2423
      @denjam2423 8 років тому +1

      jmiquelmb
      Except their accent, maybe :)

    • @jmiquelmb
      @jmiquelmb 8 років тому +1

      denjam The Quebecois accent is its own beast. So difficult to understand Source: French student

  • @toasty-math9856
    @toasty-math9856 3 роки тому +2

    god i love Cédric Villani his passion for math is amazing

  • @roxanneg6538
    @roxanneg6538 7 років тому +4

    This Ted Talk deserves more views!

  • @michaelbauers8800
    @michaelbauers8800 8 років тому

    Sleep, rest and walking away from problems is sometimes the best way to solve stuff. I have solved problems from the day before getting ready in the morning, or on the morning drive to work. If you are stuck on a problem, sometimes a break is the best thing

    • @neildhan
      @neildhan 8 років тому

      Driving and walking the dog are two of my best times for solving things I've spent ages with pencil and paper trying to work out.
      It's a bit scary though, having to dash home with a confused dog wondering what's going on, because I am worried I'll forget before I get it written down. =)

  • @edderiofer
    @edderiofer 8 років тому +3

    2:27: It's not a Gaussian distribution, it's a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.
    3:30: That's not Gaussian either; that's a binomial distribution.

    • @alexandrugheorghe5610
      @alexandrugheorghe5610 8 років тому +1

      wtf are you talking about? it's gaussian dude!

    • @edderiofer
      @edderiofer 8 років тому

      Alexandru Gheorghe Which one are you referring to?

    • @alexandrugheorghe5610
      @alexandrugheorghe5610 8 років тому

      edderiofer
      first is gaussian, second you may be right, but he didn't had enough marbles and time (obviously) to demonstrate it's a gaussian; it relates to his first graph, you will always get a gaussian out of chaos; see also chaos theory

    • @edderiofer
      @edderiofer 8 років тому +1

      Alexandru Gheorghe Nope, the first is definitely the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; some particles may move over twice the average speed, but no particle can possibly have negative speed. Google "Maxwell-Boltzmann" or "air molecules speed distribution" to confirm this for yourself.
      As for the second one, that's definitely a binomial distribution. It approximates the Gaussian distribution with more troughs, but 12 troughs is simply not close enough. Again, Google "Galton board" or "binomial distribution" and you can verify this for yourself.
      Furthermore, a Gaussian distribution extends infinitely on both sides, which neither of these distributions do.

    • @alexandrugheorghe5610
      @alexandrugheorghe5610 8 років тому

      edderiofer Let me get back to you. Thank you for the references, I will surely look them up.

  • @sangyongpark2137
    @sangyongpark2137 7 років тому +1

    Love this man. Charming, genuine and bright.

  • @dumblebee2993
    @dumblebee2993 7 років тому +11

    I guess people who complain about his accent don't really talk to people from non-English speaking countries.

    • @jean4j_
      @jean4j_ 5 років тому +1

      Most of people complaining are french ... As always they would make fun of those trying to speak English. You speak it badly, they make fun of you, you speak it perfectly, they call you a douche ...
      Serious his English is perfect if you don't pay attention on his accent.

    • @francesmunzen5897
      @francesmunzen5897 4 роки тому

      Exactly, I'd invite those people to try listening to a chinese xD

  • @vinayaktripathi8307
    @vinayaktripathi8307 2 роки тому

    6:50 What a beautiful line to ponder over.

  • @ICantEvenFunction
    @ICantEvenFunction 8 років тому +186

    Why is there a giant metal spider on his jacket?

    • @lh2738
      @lh2738 8 років тому +57

      He's not Villani but Villain. Who else but a villain would wear that?

    • @uyscuti6767
      @uyscuti6767 8 років тому +83

      that's his special style :D

    • @frtard
      @frtard 8 років тому +3

      The Cinco Bro-oche comes in many varieties.

    • @MrMarth29200
      @MrMarth29200 8 років тому +13

      It belongs to his gothic style, he always a spider on his jacket.

    • @loisewilliam9515
      @loisewilliam9515 8 років тому +17

      I like his style.

  • @caseydouglas3671
    @caseydouglas3671 3 роки тому +2

    Villani is such an inspiration. I love his vids with Numberphile. It's people like him that help us understand our beautiful universe :)

  • @emlmm88
    @emlmm88 7 років тому +3

    I honestly think part of the attraction is the beauty of the symbols themselves. The feeling of seeing a cursive Laplace transform L or a line integral symbol, to me, induces a very similar aesthetic compulsion to do math that seeing elegantly printed sheet music does to practicing Chopin.

  • @rennov8280
    @rennov8280 2 роки тому +1

    I love his weird way of being, elegant & different. ❤️

  • @BlueHawkPictures17
    @BlueHawkPictures17 8 років тому +23

    who saw him on numberphile before this video? :p

  • @aryanarora7046
    @aryanarora7046 8 років тому

    in the CC subtitles there is a mistake @ 1:20 he said "proving our correctivity" and not "proving our core activity"

  • @marceloaraujo3152
    @marceloaraujo3152 3 роки тому +3

    Que palestra sensacional! Matemática é arte! 🇧🇷🏜️

  • @afterthesmash
    @afterthesmash 5 років тому +1

    14:00 It's now understood in the sleep literature than during sleep the brain permits itself to associate over wider regions. It's probably too dangerous to allow this during consciousness, because if a dangerous animal approached, you might innovate fatally. Sleep is therefore the safest time to stretch as far as you can on your tip-toes for the peanut butter at the back of the top shelf. It doesn't always work out. Dreams that you're falling are not uncommon. But you live to try again, another night.

  • @leavemealonedamnyou
    @leavemealonedamnyou 8 років тому +111

    that's some hardcore french accent

  • @jmlietaer
    @jmlietaer 7 років тому +1

    The comment on working on a problem during sleep and finding the solution while suddenly waking up, cfr. the video just after 14:12, is typically what many computer programmers experience when they are trying to find a solution for a bug or a method to solve a programming problem. I suppose it must be the case for every knowledge worker who is motivated and driven by his study domain.

  • @charlesamd
    @charlesamd 7 років тому +3

    Ese es el tipo de comprensión del mundo que quiero tener! Por eso voy a estudiar matemáticas!

  • @boydzhang
    @boydzhang 8 років тому

    He is peculiar but cool and charming after all, refreshing my view of mathematics and also mathematicians.

  • @czargs
    @czargs 7 років тому +5

    I wish I could have the understanding of mathematics like this guy, I am so dumb

    • @nazhasabiri4825
      @nazhasabiri4825 4 роки тому +2

      At least you appreciate mathematics not like the large crowd here focusing on his tie and accent rather than what he was saying

  • @abhinav.mishra17
    @abhinav.mishra17 6 років тому

    A person whom I would like to meet and talk about his work....a passionate and dedicated man. Men like him made this world the way it looks today. Mathematics is sexy and tough to establish romantic a relation with but once it starts remains with you your whole life. It added another appreciable thing about the French in a long list. Love the French way!

  • @Chris-kw7nx
    @Chris-kw7nx 8 років тому +32

    Math is a difficult subject therefore, someone who is smart and works hard is good at Math. It gets you high paying and in demand jobs therefore, someone who has a nice car, home, and is financially stable is good at Math. The whole universe is built on Math and Physics therefore, someone who builds the latest technology is good at Math. All of this equates to a highly attractive person. That is if intelligence defines sexy to you.

  • @StreuB1
    @StreuB1 6 років тому

    Professor Villani is amazing. His talks he has done on Numberphile are equally interesting, entertaining and compelling.

  • @poetentate
    @poetentate 7 років тому +5

    Did he say, "A day I will remember until I live?"

  • @lazyFiona
    @lazyFiona 6 років тому

    English is my second language and when I heard French accent I was surprised, cause I've never faced it before. So I've watched the video and I must say it was amazing! It was such pleasure to observe some mathemetical thoughts. It wan''t informative enought, but I really enjoyed this video despite difficult understanding. And I had to listen carefully only because my poor skills in English. But I'll work on it. And thanks to all people who involved in creating this marvelous video!

  • @philosofickle
    @philosofickle 8 років тому +11

    For a moment I thought it was a new Numberphile video....

  • @dlind36
    @dlind36 8 років тому +2

    fabulous communicator and great ambassador for mathematics

  • @Quicksilver_Cookie
    @Quicksilver_Cookie 8 років тому +128

    Is he really French? He sounds like somebody who is pretending to be French :D This accent is just so stereotypical it's delightful.

    • @trueman2024
      @trueman2024 8 років тому +28

      yes he is french no doubt about that

    •  8 років тому

      he is ;)

    • @akremgassoumi4983
      @akremgassoumi4983 8 років тому +10

      OK, French people cannot pronounce 'th' like in 'the' they say 'ze'. Believe me I had course with a French teacher. Here he is trying to pronounce it right but try to concentrate and you will notice he is struggling to do it ;)
      I like his speech, very impressive.

    • @michaelbauers8800
      @michaelbauers8800 8 років тому +2

      He sounds like some actor playing an Italian or French person in an reenactment of some science thing. I think he's great

    • @shenitap.8292
      @shenitap.8292 8 років тому +4

      He is actually French, his name says it all lol. He's quite popular there as well

  • @bendib2003
    @bendib2003 8 років тому

    Guys, despite the title and all the other bias, it's actually a good talk.

  • @lingkejiang9244
    @lingkejiang9244 7 років тому +4

    This person is amazing

  • @marshmelows
    @marshmelows 2 роки тому +1

    Impressive, the title answered its own question.

  • @Rckrrr
    @Rckrrr 8 років тому +34

    wow, willy wonka is also a math genius

  • @shashankdubey90
    @shashankdubey90 4 роки тому

    He's the sexiest mathematician alive. Math becomes poetry as he begins to speak. English sounds so much better in French accent.

  • @asdfasdf6606
    @asdfasdf6606 8 років тому +4

    I feel like they pulled this dude out of a comic book lol

  • @アキ-e3i
    @アキ-e3i 5 років тому +1

    はじめて買った数学者の本がセドリックヴィラーニ氏の「定理が生まれる」だった。常に考え続ける彼の姿に憧れて数学者になろうと決めた。