Terence Tao

Terence Chi-Shen Tao AC FAA FRS (English: Terence Chi-Shen Tao; July 17, 1975 -), Australian-American mathematician, won the Fields Medal in 2006 for his outstanding contributions in the fields of partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory. He is currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is the James and Carol Collins Professor in the UCLA College of Arts and Sciences. Among many eye-catching academic achievements, the most well-known is that he jointly proved the Green-Tao theorem about the spacing of prime numbers in 2004 with the British mathematician Ben Green. Terence Tao was born into a Hong Kong immigrant family and grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. After completing his doctoral studies at Princeton University and joining the faculty at UCLA, he quickly grew into an internationally renowned top scholar, known for his extremely broad research horizons and productive cross-field collaborations. Terence Tao's academic achievements have won him many honors, including the Fields Medal and MacArthur Genius Grant in 2006, and the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014. Currently, Terence Tao has published research papers spanning many difficult branches of mathematics such as harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing, and analytic number theory. He is recognized as one of the most influential mathematicians of our time.