20018 Fields Medal Winner: Akshay Venkatesh

Professor Akshay Venkatesh (who entered university at 13) has become the second Australian to win the coveted Fields Medal, the maths equivalent of a Nobel Prize.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/fields-medalist-akshay-venkatesh-bridges-math-and-time-20180801/

"Akshay Venkatesh, a former prodigy who struggled with the genius stereotype, has won a Fields Medal for his 'profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics.'"