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Akshay Venkatesh
Connecting number theory with geometry and dynamics, earning the 2018 Fields Medal.
Equidistribution · Derived structures
- Born
- 1981
- Birthplace
- New Delhi, India
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Akshay Venkatesh
Akshay Venkatesh is an Australian mathematician born in India and raised in Perth. His research brings methods from different branches of mathematics to bear on problems about numbers and symmetry. He joined the permanent faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in 2018.
Early life
Perth childhood
Moved to Australia at two and attended Scotch College.
Early university entry
Entered the University of Western Australia as a teenager, then completed a Princeton doctorate in 2002.
Career
- 2002–2006
Early research posts
Worked at MIT, held a Clay Research Fellowship and joined New York University.
- 2008
Stanford professor
Took up a professorship at Stanford University.
- 2018
Institute for Advanced Study
Joined its permanent mathematics faculty in the year of his Fields Medal.
Contributions
Equidistribution
Studied how arithmetic objects spread through geometric spaces.
Derived structures
Developed connections involving topology, arithmetic groups and number theory.
Fields Medal
Recognised for uniting several mathematical fields through his research.
Beyond mathematics
Two Olympiads
Won medals at international physics and mathematics Olympiads before university.
Cricket
Helped establish an honours-student cricket association during his undergraduate years in Perth.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Institutional biography and career record ↗Photo: Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS). CC BY 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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