Dr Terence Tao won the award in 2006.Ĭomedian and mathematics communicator Adam Spencer said Professor Venkatesh's award was a "great day for Australian mathematics" and the crown in a string of recent achievements from Australian mathematicians. Professor Venkatesh is just the second Australian to receive the Fields Medal. "I was sure that he would achieve a great deal mathematically, and I'm thrilled at his stunning success in being awarded a Fields Medal." 'Australian mathematics is on a real roll'
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He was interested and immediately engaged with all kinds of mathematical questions. "It was clear from the start that Akshay was amazingly talented. Remember, in this case Muscles Are NOT Meaningless.The character does not need to look the part to qualify for this trope, though it. He coped with quite a lot of detail and I found that he could easily grasp the essence of the research. The inversion is the Badass Bookworm.In general, a Genius Bruiser looks huge and powerfully muscled, then unexpectedly shows off an intellectual side, whereas a Badass Bookworm looks like a standard geek, but then displays a surprising amount of physical prowess. "At Akshay's request I explained what the problem was. "At our first meeting I was speaking with Akshay's mother Svetha while Akshay was sitting at a table in my office reading my blackboard, which contained fragments from a supervision of one of my PhD students, just completed," Professor Praeger recalled. When he started university at the age of 13, one of his mentors was Professor Cheryl Praeger, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. "He never did anything particularly special because he was good at maths. "He was a normal, happy child growing up in a normal family," she said. His mum said that was something she was keen to foster.
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"We spent a lot of time as honours students talking about cricket." Mathematics breakthroughs might seem like "research for the sake of research", but they can turn out to be pretty useful and Fields Medal recipients are responsible for a lot of them.