Terence Tao
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Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician,
Fields medalist, and 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 research includes topics in
harmonic analysis,
partial differential equations,
algebraic combinatorics,
arithmetic combinatorics,
geometric combinatorics,
probability theory,
compressed sensing and
analytic number theory.
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, and is a
2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians.
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