Who is India-born 'Nobel for maths' winner Akshay Venkatesh?
Indian-Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh won the Fields Medal on Wednesday, considered the Nobel Prize equivalent for mathematics. Born in New Delhi and brought up in Perth, he won medals in International Physics and Math Olympiads at age 11 and 12. After finishing PhD from Princeton at 20 and postdoc from MIT, the 36-year-old is currently a professor at Stanford University.