News24.com | SATURDAY PROFILE | Prof Hugo Duminil-Copin: From failing maths at school to becoming maths A-lister

Epidemiologist Dr Alex Welte speaks to Prof Hugo Duminil-Copin, a professor of mathematics at the University of Geneva and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), and who earlier this year became a recipient of a 'Fields Medal' – much like a Nobel Prize in Mathematics.