Published on 04/4/2017

Cedric Villani, distinguished French mathematician, visited Croatia in 2017 (on the photo with Petra Ivatovic, 2nd grade of the XVth Gymnasium in Zagreb). On 3rd April he delivered two lectures, one for high school students in the city of Zagreb, dealing with Math and Bats, and another at the University of Zagreb, dealing with Mathematics and Art. In several of his previous lectures he mentioned the work of Croatian mathematician Danilo Blanuša in the context of achievements of John Nash in the study of isometric embeddings of hyperbolic spaces (important in the relativity theory) into Euclidean spaces. His appearance in Croatia has raised unprecedented interest.

In one of his previous lectures professor Villani discussed a result of Croatian mathematician Danilo Blanusa from 1950s

Professor Cedric Villani, distinguished French mathematician, with Petra Ivatović, 2nd grade of the XVth (Mathematical) Gymnasium
in Zagreb, on 3rd of April 2017. Professor Villani obtained a brand new spider as a gift from the Gymnasium.
Many thanks to Aneta Copić, prof., XVth Gymnasium, for sending us this nice photo.

Professor Cedric Villani speaking about Mathematics and Bats at the XVth (Mathematical) Gymnasium in Zagreb, 3rd of April 2017.
Photo sent by Aneta Copić, prof., XVth Gymnasium.

Cedric Villani at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Zagreb.
His very interesting lecture about Mathematics and Art lasted nearly two hours.

Lecture hall at the Mathematics Department of the University of Zagreb stuffed with listeners: students, professors, members of
Croatian Academy of Sciences and foreign guests, sitting in chairs as well as on the floor.

Cedric Villani, distinguished French mathematician, visited Croatia in 2017. On 3rd of April he delivered two lectures, one for high school students in the city of Zagreb, dealing with Math and Bats, and another one at the University of Zagreb, dealing with Mathematics and Art. In several of his previous lectures he mentioned the work of Croatian mathematician Danilo Blanuša in the context of achievements of John Nash in the study of isometric immersions of hyperbolic spaces (important in the relativity theory) into Euclidean spaces. His appearance in Croatia has raised unprecedented interest.

In one of his articles (see [PDF] on p. 7) Cedric Villani describes a contribution of Croatian mathematician Danilo Blanuša from 1950s.

At 17:50, Cedric Villani describes a result of Danilo Blanuša, distinguished Croatian mathematician.

Botanical Garden in Zagreb in Spring.

Cedric Villani with Eduard Marušić Paloka, director of the Mathematics Department of the University of Zagreb

Professor Villani talking with Croatian mathematicians.

Botanical Garden of the University of Zagreb

Professor Cedric Villani, director of the Poincaré Institute of Mathematics in Paris,
discussing with two young Croatian students at the University of Zagreb.

Cedric Villani's lecture in French, in which he described a result of Croatian mathematician Danilo Blanuša at 19:45,
related to the achievements of John Nash.

Most of the photos are taken from photos.google.com. Many thanks to dr. Goran Igally, University of Zagreb.

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