Mathematics and Politics
Cédric Villani - Professor, University of Lyon & Director, Henri Poincaré Institute
ICM TV speaks to the 2010 Fields Medal Winner about his public lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 looking at the way science has grown through history, teaching kids how science is not something separate to society, but deeply tangled up in it. This is illustrated no better than in his role as elected official in the French National Assembly, where his role is to bring mathematics and politics together – in everything from improving teaching in mathematics, to the ethics of artificial intelligence.