Flinders University (BS, MSc) Princeton University (PhD)
Known for
Partial Differential Equations, Analytic Number Theory, Random matrices, Compressed Sensing, Combinatorics, Dynamical Systems
Spouse
Laura Tao
Children
2
Awards
Fields Medal (2006)
List
Salem Prize (2000)
Bôcher Memorial Prize (2002)
Clay Research Award (2003)
Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2005)
Ostrowski Prize (2005)
Levi L. Conant Prize (2005)
MacArthur Award (2006)
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2006)
Sloan Fellowship (2006)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2007)
Alan T. Waterman Award (2008)
Onsager Medal (2008)
King Faisal International Prize (2010)[1]
Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2010)
Pólya Prize (2010)[2]
Crafoord Prize (2012)
Simons Investigator (2012)
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014)
Royal Medal (2014)
PROSE Award (2015)
Riemann Prize (2019)
Princess of Asturias Award (2020)
Bolyai Prize (2020)
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2021)
Global Australian of the Year Award (2022)
Grande Médaille (2023)
Best Paper Award (2023)
Alexanderson Award (2023)
Scientific career
Fields
Harmonic analysis
Institutions
University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis
Three Regularity Results in Harmonic Analysis[3](1996)
Doctoral advisor
Elias M. Stein
Doctoral students
Monica Vișan
Website
www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
terrytao.wordpress.com
mathstodon.xyz/@tao
Terence Tao
Traditional Chinese
陶哲軒
Simplified Chinese
陶哲轩
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Táo Zhéxuān
Wu
Suzhounese
Dau Tseh-shie
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Tòuh Jit-hīn
Jyutping
Tou4 Zit3-hin1
IPA
[tʰou˩ tsiːt̚˧.hiːn˥]
Terence Chi-Shen TaoFAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing and analytic number theory.[4]
Tao was born to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Adelaide. Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006 and won the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014. He is also a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers.[5] He is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians.[6][7][8][9][10]
^King Faisal Foundation – retrieved 11 January 2010.
^"SIAM: George Pólya Prize". Archived from the original on 23 October 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
^ ab"Vitae and Bibliography for Terence Tao". 12 October 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
^"Mathematician Proves Huge Result on 'Dangerous' Problem". 11 December 2019. Archived from the original on 23 October 2021.
^"Search | arXiv e-print repository".
^Cook, Gareth (24 July 2015). "The Singular Mind of Terry Tao (Published 2015)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
^"Primed for Success". 2 October 2007.
^"PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL OF ADVISORS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Terence Tao, PhD". 2021.
^"Terence Tao, 'Mozart of Math,' is first UCLA math prof to win Fields Medal". 8 August 2006.
^Cite error: The named reference Terence Tao: the Mozart of maths was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California...
statement of van der Waerden's theorem. The Green–Tao theorem, proved by Ben Green and TerenceTao in 2004, states that the sequence of prime numbers...
prodigies largely or primarily known for calculating skills.) TerenceTao (1975-) A child prodigy, Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an...
commitment to serve verbally as well as mathematically talented students. TerenceTao is one of only three children in the history of SET to have achieved...
breakthrough work of Yitang Zhang in 2013, as well as work by James Maynard, TerenceTao and others, has made substantial progress towards proving that there...
exceptionally well in the IMO, winning multiple gold medals. Others, such as TerenceTao, Artur Avila, Grigori Perelman, Ngô Bảo Châu and Maryam Mirzakhani have...
theorem of calculus fails in higher dimensions and on general manifolds. — TerenceTao, Differential Forms and Integration The de Rham complex is the cochain...
honor of Bernhard Riemann. Established in 2019, it was first awarded to TerenceTao in 2020. It is co-sponsored by the regional government of Lombardy, all...
harmonic analysis and other areas. In 2003, jointly with Jean Bourgain and TerenceTao, he proved that any subset of Z / p Z {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /p\mathbb...
on sparse vectors. The concept was introduced by Emmanuel Candès and TerenceTao and is used to prove many theorems in the field of compressed sensing...
Retrieved 2014-06-24. "Mathematics Breakthrough Prize > Laureates > TerenceTao". Archived from the original on 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2014-06-24. "Mathematics...
≥ N + 1. {\displaystyle \|x\|_{0}+\|X\|_{0}\geq N+1.} Discovered by TerenceTao, this inequality is also sharp. Amrein–Berthier and Benedicks's theorem...
Joanne Chory and Sandra Myrna Díaz 2020: Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies, TerenceTao and Emmanuel Candès 2021: Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman, Philip Felgner...
Bombieri, Charles Fefferman, Samuel Karlin, David Kazhdan, Louis Nirenberg, TerenceTao, Wendelin Werner, and Don Zagier. Anderson, J. M. (1988). "Obituary:...
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