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Terence Tao
Sign in to saveAlso known as Terence "Terry" Chi-Shen Tao, Terence Chi-Shen Tao, Tao Zhexuan, T. Tao, Terry Tao, Terence C. Tao
Australian-American mathematician
Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician recognized as one of the world's leading experts in pure mathematics. His work spans multiple areas of mathematics and has earned him widespread acclaim for advancing human understanding of fundamental mathematical problems.
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Terence Tao appears in Vinony's Fields Medal collection — one of 68 entries. It also appears in MacArthur Fellows.
Within Vinony's link graph, Terence Tao is referenced by 625 other articles, and connects out to MacArthur Fellows Program, pinyin and University of California, Los Angeles.
It is catalogued under topics including 1975 births, 21st-century American male writers and 21st-century American mathematicians.
Its subject is documented across 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Film & TV
Known for
- Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture — Himself2015
- The Colbert Report — Self - Guest2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Terence
- Family name
- Tao
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Adelaide
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- International Mathematical Olympiad
- Doctoral advisor
- Elias M. Stein
- Student of
- Paul Erdős
- Field of work
- extremal combinatorics
- Official website
- terrytao.wordpress.com
- Image
- Terence Tao, PCAST Member (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- United States
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- name in native language
- 陶哲軒
- member of
- American Mathematical Society
- Commons category
- Terence Tao
- date of birth
- 1975-07-17
- Erdős number
- 2
- assessment
- intelligence test
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- social media followers
- 12766
- curriculum vitae URL
- www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/preprints/cv.html
- official blog URL
- terrytao.wordpress.com
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Encyclopedic overview
Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲轩; pinyin: Táo Zhéxuān; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian and American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. Among his contributions to mathematics is the Green–Tao theorem on prime numbers, which he proved in 2004 in collaboration with Ben Green.
Tao was born to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. After studying at Princeton and joining the faculty at UCLA, he went on to be a researcher, known for the diversity of his own interests and his collaborations with others. Tao has won many prizes for his work, including the Fields Medal in 2006 and the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014. He is a 2006 MacArthur Fellow.
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