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Akshay Venkatesh

1981 - Today

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Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Indian 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akshay Venkatesh is the 994th most popular mathematician (down from 993rd in 2019), the 1,297th most popular biography from India (down from 1,257th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Akshay Venkatesh ranks 994 out of 1,004. Before him are Manjul Bhargava, Hugo Duminil-Copin, Steven Strogatz, Joan Birman, Raman Parimala, and Lai-Sang Young. After him are Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Daniel J. Bernstein, Jennifer Tour Chayes, Noam Elkies, Pietro Boselli, and Hannah Fry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Akshay Venkatesh ranks 702. Before him are Jonathan Bennett, Lucie Décosse, Ruby, Julie Gonzalo, Silvan Zurbriggen, and Florent Serra. After him are Mario Eggimann, Meagan Good, Esha Deol, Yayoi Kobayashi, Pablo Casado, and Abigail Spears.

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In India

Among people born in India, Akshay Venkatesh ranks 1,297 out of 1,861. Before him are Seema Punia (1983), Mahima Chaudhry (1973), Sai Paranjpye (1938), Sanal Edamaruku (1955), Ramesh Krishnan (1961), and Archanna Guptaa (1979). After him are Esha Deol (1981), S. S. Rajamouli (1973), Sharat Saxena (1950), Rajkumar Hirani (1962), Pankaj Advani (1985), and Aarya Babbar (1982).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Akshay Venkatesh ranks 20. Before him are Kātyāyana (-200), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Radhanath Sikdar (1813), Bhama Srinivasan (1935), Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930), and Raman Parimala (1948).

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