Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has just won the Fields Medal, commonly referred to as ‘the Nobel Prize of Mathematics’. Venkatesh becomes just the second Australian to win the ...

“But Akshay is one of the very few people who has done that with my own work.” Since the mid-19th century, mathematicians have ... a science expo at her school. Venkatesh was on solo parent duty, ...

Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded what is sometimes ... For a few days, I was still asking myself, and to my wife, whether they will contact me again and tell me, 'Well ...

When Akshay Venkatesh was 13 years old and had completed his high school studies, he told the ABC he was aiming to "maybe become a mathematician". The Fields Medal is known as the "Nobel Prize for ...