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Akshay Venkatesh

1981 - Today

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Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.He was the first Australian to have won medals at both the International Physics Olympiad and International Mathematical Olympiad, which he did at the age of 12.In 2018, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his synthesis of analytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics, topology, and representation theory. He is the second Australian and the second person of Indian descent to win the Fields Medal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akshay Venkatesh has received more than 612,571 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Akshay Venkatesh is the 896th most popular mathematician (down from 822nd in 2019), the 986th most popular biography from India (down from 938th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Akshay Venkatesh ranks 896 out of 823Before him are Victor Glushkov, Maryna Viazovska, Steven Strogatz, Nikolai Durov, Bhama Srinivasan, and Euphemia Haynes. After him are Manjul Bhargava, Robert J. Lang, Lai-Sang Young, Raman Parimala, Éva Tardos, and Svetlana Jitomirskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Akshay Venkatesh ranks 567Before him are Stephen Hunt, Esha Deol, Antony Costa, Tulsi Gabbard, Leticia Dolera, and Raphaël Personnaz. After him are Ana Hickmann, Joci Pápai, Zurab Zviadauri, Bernhard Eisel, Luke Wilkshire, and Michael Silberbauer.

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In India

Among people born in India, Akshay Venkatesh ranks 986 out of 1,493Before him are Adil Hussain (1963), Kiran Rao (1973), Esha Deol (1981), Mahima Chaudhry (1973), Joseph Galibardy (1915), and Saina Nehwal (1990). After him are Salman Khurshid (1953), Reena Roy (1957), Ahmed Patel (1949), Sonali Bendre (1975), Alok Sharma (1967), and Michael Bennet (1964).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Akshay Venkatesh ranks 17Before him are D. R. Kaprekar (1905), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), Harish-Chandra (1923), Radhanath Sikdar (1813), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), and Bhama Srinivasan (1935). After him are Raman Parimala (1948).