Australian Akshay Venkatesh wins Fields medal – the 'Nobel for maths'
by Naaman Zhou from on (#3W0W5)
US-based professor is only the second Australian to win the prestigious prize
The Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has won the Fields medal, the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel prize.
He becomes only the second Australian to win the prestigious prize, after Terence Tao in 2006. It is only awarded every four years to up to four mathematicians who are under 40.
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