At the playground on the leafy campus of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, one afternoon in May, the mathematician Akshay Venkatesh alternated between pushing his 4-year-old ...

Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has just won the Fields Medal, commonly referred to as ‘the Nobel Prize of Mathematics’. He is one of four winners of the highly prestigious prize.

But even by mathematical standards, Akshay Venkatesh is unusually prodigious. The newly minted Fields medallist emigrated from Delhi to Perth at the age of two, or rather, his parents did.

Venkatesh’s work earned him the Salem Prize in 2007, Sastra Ramanujan Prize in 2008, Infosys Prize in 2016, and Ostrowski Prize in 2017. Venkatesh was a child prodigy born in New Delhi in 1981.

In 2018, as he prepared to be awarded the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor, Akshay Venkatesh carried a piece of paper in his pocket. On it, he had written a table of mathematical expressions that ...

Akshay Venkatesh, a former prodigy who struggled with the genius stereotype, has won a Fields Medal for his “profound contributions to an exceptionally broad… Akshay Venkatesh, a former prodigy who ...

Professor Akshay Venkatesh has become the second Australian to be awarded the most prestigious prize in the mathematics world, the Fields Medal. Australian professor Akshay Venkatesh has received ...

Indian-Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded what is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics," the prestigous Fields Medal. The professor, who now teaches at Stanford ...

India-born Professor Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded the prestigious 2018 Fields Medal, described as the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his contribution to a broad range of subjects in mathematics.