Discover this surprising documentary, more than once rewarded, about how mathematics have changed our world, for the better or sometimes for the worst. The screening will be then followed by a talk with Olivier Peyon and Cédric Villani (2010 Fields Medal).

Math always bored you? You always thought that being useless at math was inevitable? We could have been happy to laugh at them if mathematics hadn't taken such an important place in our society: Apple, Google, Goldman Sachs are nothing more than algorithms and mathematic formulas. How did mathematics end up suffering from such a lack of interest at the very moment that they rule the world?
Through a journey to the four corners of the world in the company of the greatest mathematicians, including Cédric Villani (2010 Fields Medal), Comment j’ai détesté les maths recounts how mathematics have changed our world for the better... and sometimes for the worst.

Cédric Villani, born in 1973, is a French mathematician, director of the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris and professor at Claude Bernard University in Lyon. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010. He has worked on statistical mechanics’ problems (Boltzmann equation and Laudau damping), optimization (Monge’s optimal transport problem) and Riemannian geometry (Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces). After the screening, he will come for a talk about the documentary and mathematics, for the better.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbeCjsKnLuQ