BIRTH OF A THEOREM – Cédric Villani
What goes on inside the mind of a rock-star mathematician? Where does inspiration come from?
In Cédric Villani’s Birth of A Theorem we discover how it feels to be obsessed by a theorem throughout your dreams, why appreciating maths is a bit like watching an episode of Columbo, and how sometimes inspiration only comes from locking yourself away in a dark room to think.
Villani takes us on a mesmerising journey as he wrestles with a new theorem that will win him the most coveted prize in mathematics, along the way conjuring up an inimitable cast of characters including the omnipresent Einstein, mad genius Kurt Godel, and Villani’s personal hero, John Nash.
Maths has never seemed so magical or so exciting.
Birth of a Theorem is published by The Bodley Head in March 2015.
