(L-R) Indian-Australian mathematician, Akshay Venkatesh; German mathematician, Peter Scholze; and Italian mathematician, Alessio Figalli, three of the four winners of mathematics' prestigious Fields Medal, often known as the Nobel prize for math, pose at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 1, 2018. Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images
A 36-year-old Australian man from Perth has won the Fields Medal, also known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics.
Akshay Venkatesh, a professor at Stanford University in California, won his prize for synthesising a range of mathematical theories to solve the sub-convexity problem, a well-known problem in the maths community.
