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Thomas Stelson Lecture Series
Thomas Stelson Lecture Series
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2013-04-19
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Villani, Cedric
This talk is the story of an encounter of three distinct fields: non-Euclidean geometry, gas dynamics and economics. Some of the most fundamental mathematical tools behind these theories appear to have a close connection, which was revealed around the turn of the 21st century, and has developed strikingly since then.