Akshay Venkatesh: The podcast, part II

Submitted by Marianne on August 7, 2018

Akshay Venkatesh.

In this podcast we try to capture a flavour of Fields medallist Akshay Venkatesh's work.

This content was produced in a collaboration with the London Mathematical Society.

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