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Akshay Venkatesh gets prestigious Fields Medal
August 2 , 2018
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- India-origin mathematician Akshay Venkatesh was awarded the prestigious Fields medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.
- The 36-year-old was chosen as one of the four winners of the prize, which is commonly referred to as the Nobel prize for mathematics.
- The other three winners are,
- Caucher Birkar (Iranian Kurdish origin),
- Germany’s Peter Scholze,
- Italy’s Alessio Figalli
- The Fields medals are awarded every four years to the most promising mathematicians under the age of 40.
- The prize was inaugurated in 1932 at the request of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields, who ran the 1924 Mathematics Congress in Toronto.
- Each winner receives a 15,000 Canadian-dollar cash prize. At least two, and preferably four people, are always honoured in the award ceremony.
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