Terence Tao
Terence Tao
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Terence Tao （陶哲轩, pinyin: Táo Zhéxuān, born July 17, 1975, Adelaide, Australia）, is a mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein. He is currently a full professor of mathematics at UCLA in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Laura and son William.
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Research and awards
Terence Tao was an extraordinary mathematical child prodigy, exhibiting mature mathematical abilities from an early age. He is one of only two children in the history of the Davidson's Study of Exceptional Talent program that have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just 8 years old （he scored a 760）. In 1986, 1987, and 1988, Tao was the youngest participant in the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a bronze, silver, and gold medal respectively. He won the gold medal before he was 13 years old -- a feat that has never been paralleled since.
He received the Salem Prize in 2000, the Bocher Prize in 2002, the Clay Research Award in 2003, and the Fields Medal in 2006, for his contributions to analysis including work on the Kakeya conjecture and wave maps. In 2005, he received the American Mathematical Society's Levi L. Conant Prize with Allen Knutson.
In 2004, Ben Green and Terence Tao released a preprint proving the existence of arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers. For this and other work, he was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal. In 2006, he won the Fields Medal, the top international scientific prize regarded as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
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