The house of mathematics

Cédric Villani, 2010 Fields medallist, is a professor at Université de Lyon and a member of the Académie des Sciences. A specialist in mathematical analysis, he has worked on the mathematical theory of gases and plasmas and on non-Euclidian geometry. He has been the director of IHP since 2009. He is the author of Birth of a Theorem (2012).

Jean-Philippe Uzan is a research director at CNRS and works at the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris. A specialist in cosmology and gravitation, he is also the deputy director of IHP.

Vincent Moncorgé, a freelance photographer, co-authored La Science en personnes with Yvan Schneiderlin (preface by Claudie Haigneré), published in 2007 and Orfèvres de la lumière with Marie-Pauline Gacoin (preface by Yves Coppens), published in 2010.

With contributions from Nalini Anantharaman, François Apéry, Alain Bénichou, Michel Broué, Alain Comtet, Michel Demazure, Maria J. Esteban, Étienne Ghys, Quentin Lazzarotto, Joel Lebowitz, Ariane Mézard, Marc Peigné, Jérôme Perez, Diaraf Seck, Li Ta-Tsien, Emmanuel Trélat and Brigitte Yvon-Deyme.