Terence Tao

Born

July 17, 1975 (age 51)

Known as

mathematician, university teacher

Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory. Among his best-known results is the Green–Tao theorem, proved with Ben Green, which states that the prime numbers contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.

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