Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian and American mathematician. He is a Fields medalist and 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. His published research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing, and analytic number theory.
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- Born in
- Adelaide
- Educated at
- Flinders UniversityPrinceton UniversityBlackwood High SchoolJohns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
- Awards
- 🏆 Fields medal🏆 Australian Mathematical Society Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Elias M. Stein
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Tim Austin
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1975
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