Akshay Venkatesh

Akshay Venkatesh, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor in the School of Mathematics, and a 2018 recipient of the Fields Medal, will deliver the public lecture “Primes and Knots” on October 25, 2019, at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall.

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Akshay Venkatesh, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor in the Institute's School of Mathematics, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Australia.

Venkatesh, who won the Fields Medal in 2018, enrolled at the University...

Akshay Venkatesh, Professor in the School of Mathematics, and Manjul Bhargava, IAS Trustee and Member (2001–02) in the School, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society.

The Royal Society is a self-governing fellowship made up of the most...

"The most influential ideas are ones that, in a way, are not attributed to the people who came up with them. They are assimilated. It seems like they were always there."

Professor in the School of Mathematics Akshay Venkatesh speaks on the...

Michael Giudici and Akshay Venkatesh became friends in their second-year studies, when Giudici was 18. Venkatesh was 12. He is believed to be the youngest person to enroll at the University of Western Australia.

“And he was much better than all the...

The International Mathematical Union (IMU) has awarded a 2018 Fields Medal to Akshay Venkatesh, a world-leading mathematician recently appointed to the permanent Faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) School of Mathematics. This highest...

Akshay Venkatesh, a world-leading mathematician and recent appointee to the Faculty of the Institute, has been awarded a 2018 Fields Medal for his “profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics.” Quanta's Erica...

“He truly is a universal mathematician,” said mathematician Jordan Ellenberg of Akshay Venkatesh, 2018 Fields medalist and recent appointee to the Faculty of the Institute's School of Mathematics. “His work has gone in a lot of different directions...

Akshay Venkatesh, a world-leading mathematician who has made fundamental contributions to various fields of mathematics, working in particular at the intersection of analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, and representation theory, has...

Akshay Venkatesh, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2017 Ostrowski Prize. The prize, which was established in 1989, is awarded every two years to a scientist or group of scientists who have achieved...