{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 4 CEDRIC VILLANI","description":" &amp;nbsp; &quot;To achieve good results, work all night and eat soup&quot;. &amp;nbsp; Cedric Villani is the Field's Medal winning maths professor from Paris who changed the world by discovering a new theorem (by accident). He has since dedicated his life to communicating the beauty of mathematics and insists that &quot;to achieve good results, work all night and eat soup&quot;. &amp;nbsp; He is a beautiful person, with a beautiful mind, which I do my best to explore in this episode as I seek to discover the truth behind those ten words. Join me on this voyage of discovery as we seek to understand why math(s) really is &quot;sexy&quot;. &amp;nbsp;  This bourbon fueled episode was &quot;slightly longer&quot; than expected because of the various stories I share, here's some timings to help you dig in and out of the podcast depending upon how much time you have. I thought this would be a better solution rather than debating for hours which bits to cut out. &amp;nbsp; Thank you for listening! &amp;nbsp; TIMINGS  0:00 ~ Intro 4:23 ~ &quot;To achieve good results work all night and eat soup&quot; 8:48 ~ Why is maths sexy? 14:47 ~ Why do people HATE maths? 19:40 ~ The Idea of Creating Something Beautiful 37:30 ~ The Birth of a Theorem 40:00 ~ Maths, Mountains and Music 44:51 ~ How to find your own mountain to climb 54:20 ~ What makes you wake up in the morning? 55:43 ~ Why are&amp;nbsp; Nobel laureates so good at presenting? 1:00:55 ~ When I failed at Hugo Boss by presenting bad math 1:02:34 ~ How should your office make you feel? 1:04:34 ~ The G\u00f6mb\u00f6c 1:16:59 ~ Why are questions more valuable than the answers? 1:18:25 ~ Cedric's best advice &quot;The Bottom Line&quot;  &amp;nbsp; Cedric Villani with a G\u00f6mb\u00f6c  &amp;nbsp; LINKS  &quot;Birth of a Theorem&quot; on Amazon Gaping Void by Hugh Macleod &quot;How to be Creative&quot; FREE eBook by Hugh Macleod &quot;What's so sexy about math?&quot; TED Talk &quot;The Beautiful Minds&quot; TED Talk Cedric Villani on Numberphile [Playlist] Melanie Safka [Spotify] The G\u00f6mb\u00f6c [Wired Magazine] The story of Cedric's spiders The G\u00f6mb\u00f6c Lecture [Oxford University] Numberphile on YouTube   ","author_name":"Ten Words","author_url":"http:\/\/jeremy.live\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6453315\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/20234354"}