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...
In 1847, Gabriel Lamé proved Fermat’s Last Theorem. Or so he
thought. Lamé was a French mathematician who had made many
important discoveries. In March of that year he sensed he’d made
perhaps his biggest: an elegant proof of a problem that had...
Akshay Venkatesh,
Member (2005–06) in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the
2016 Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences by the Infosys Science
Foundation. Venkatesh was cited for his exceptionally wide ranging,
foundational, and creative...
