On Wednesday, this year’s recipients of the Fields Medal; the Nobel Prize of mathematics were announced at International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. Indian-Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh is also part of this list.
New Delhi-born Venkatesh is currently teaching at Stanford University, has won the Fields Medal for his “profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics” and his “strikingly far-reaching conjectures”.
Venkatesh’s journey has been full of achievements and accolades. He participated in physics and math Olympiads. In 2002, he earned his PhD at the age of 20. Since then, he has gone from holding a post-doctoral position at MIT to becoming a Clay Research Fellow and, now a professor at Stanford University.
The other Fields medalists are Peter Scholze of the University of Bonn; Caucher Birkar of the University of Cambridge in England; and Alessio Figalli of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

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