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[h=1]Terence Tao[/h]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tao at March 2006 Erdős Memorial Conference in Memphis, Tennessee
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[TD]17 July 1975 (age 38)
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[TD]Australian[SUP][1][/SUP]
United States[SUP][1][/SUP][/TD]
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[TH="bgcolor: transparent"]Fields[/TH]
[TD="class: category"]Mathematics[/TD]
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[TD]University of California, Los Angeles[/TD]
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[TH="bgcolor: transparent"]Alma mater[/TH]
[TD]Flinders University
Princeton University[/TD]
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[TH="bgcolor: transparent"]Doctoral advisor[/TH]
[TD]Elias M. Stein[/TD]
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[TH="bgcolor: transparent"]Known for[/TH]
[TD]GreenTao theorem
Tao's inequality
Kakeya conjecture
Horn conjecture[/TD]
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[TH="bgcolor: transparent"]Notable awards[/TH]
[TD]Salem Prize (2000)
Bôcher Memorial Prize (2002)
Clay Research Award (2003)
Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2005)
Ostrowski Prize (2005)
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2006)
Levi L.Conant Prize (2005)
Fields Medal (2006)
MacArthur Award (2007)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2007)
Alan T. Waterman Award (2008)
Onsager Medal (2008)
King Faisal International Prize(2010)
Nemmers Prize in Mathematics(2010)
Polya Prize (2010)
Crafoord Prize (2012)
Simons Foundation Award (2012)
Joseph I. Lieberman Award(2013)[/TD]
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Terence "Terry" Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (simplified Chinese: 陶哲轩; traditional Chinese: 陶哲軒😉 (born 17 July 1975, Adelaide), is an Australian mathematician working in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, additive combinatorics, ergodic Ramsey theory, random matrix theory, and analytic number theory. He currently holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was one of the recipients of the 2006 Fields Medal.
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[h=2]Personal life[edit][/h]Tao was a child prodigy,[SUP][2][/SUP] one of the subjects in the longitudinal research on exceptionally gifted children by education researcher Miraca Gross.[SUP][3][/SUP] His father told the press that at the age of two, during a family gathering, Tao attempted to teach a 5-year-old child arithmetic and English. According to Smithsonian Online Magazine, Tao could carry out basic arithmetic by the age of two. When asked by his father how he knew numbers and letters, he said he learned them from Sesame Street.[SUP][4][/SUP] Aside from English, Tao speaks Cantonese, but cannot write Chinese.
Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university level mathematics courses at the age of nine. He is one of only two children (besides Lenhard Ng) in the history of the Johns Hopkins' Study of Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just 8 years old (he scored a 760).[SUP][5][/SUP] In 1986, 1987, and 1988, Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten, winning a bronze, silver, and gold medal respectively. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday. At age 14, Tao attended the Research Science Institute. When he was 15 he published his first assistant paper. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees (at the age of 16) from Flinders University under Garth Gaudry. In 1992 he won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake postgraduate study in theUnited States. From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein, receiving his Ph.D. at the age of 21.[SUP][6][/SUP] He joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. When he was 24, he was promoted to full professor at UCLA and remains the youngest person ever appointed to that rank by the institution.
Tao's father was born and grew up in Shanghai, and Tao's mother is Cantonese by ethnicity.[SUP][7][/SUP] His parents are first generation immigrants from Hong Kong to Australia.[SUP][8][/SUP] His father, Billy Tao (Chinese: 陶象國; pinyin: Táo Xiàngguó; Cantonese Yale: tòuh jeuhng gwok) is a pediatrician, and his mother, Grace Tao, is a physics and mathematics graduate from the University of Hong Kong, formerly a secondary school teacher of mathematics in Hong Kong.[SUP][9][/SUP]
Tao has two brothers living in Australia, both of whom represented Australia at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
- Nigel Tao was part of the team at Google Australia that created Google Wave. He now works on the Go programming language.[SUP][10][/SUP]
- Trevor Tao has a double degree in maths and music and will soon be featured in a book on autistic savants.[SUP][10][/SUP]
[h=2]Research and awards[edit][/h]Tao has won numerous honors and awards.[SUP][12][/SUP] He received the Salem Prize in 2000, the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 2002, and theClay Research Award in 2003, 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, and in 2006 he was awarded theSASTRA Ramanujan Prize.
In 2004, Ben Green and Tao released a preprint proving what is now known as the GreenTao theorem. This theorem states that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers. The New York Times described it this way:[SUP][13][/SUP][SUP][14][/SUP]
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[TD]In 2004, Dr. Tao, along with Ben Green, a mathematician now at the University of Cambridge in England, solved a problem related to the Twin Prime Conjecture by looking at prime number progressionsseries of numbers equally spaced. (For example, 3, 7 and 11 constitute a progression of prime numbers with a spacing of 4; the next number in the sequence, 15, is not prime.) Dr. Tao and Dr. Green proved that it is always possible to find, somewhere in the infinity of integers, a progression of prime numbers of equal spacing and any length.[/TD]
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For this and other work Tao was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal of 2004.
In August 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, he became one of the youngest persons, the first Australian, and the first UCLA faculty member ever to be awarded a Fields Medal.[SUP][15][/SUP][SUP][16][/SUP] An article by New Scientist[SUP][17][/SUP] writes of his ability:
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[TD]Such is Tao's reputation that mathematicians now compete to interest him in their problems, and he is becoming a kind of Mr Fix-it for frustrated researchers. "If you're stuck on a problem, then one way out is to interest Terence Tao," says Charles Fefferman [professor of mathematics at Princeton University].[SUP][15][/SUP][SUP][16][/SUP][/TD]
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Tao was a finalist to become Australian of the Year in 2007.[SUP][18][/SUP] He is a corresponding member of the Australian Academy of Science, and in 2007 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.[SUP][19][/SUP][SUP][20][/SUP] In the same year Tao also published Tao's inequality,[SUP][21][/SUP] an extension to the Szemerédi regularity lemma in the field of information theory.
In April 2008, Tao received the Alan T. Waterman Award, which recognizes an early career scientist for outstanding contributions in their field. In addition to a medal, Waterman awardees also receive a $500,000 grant for advanced research.[SUP][22][/SUP]
In December 2008, he was named The Lars Onsager lecturer[SUP][23][/SUP] of 2008, for "his combination of mathematical depth, width and volume in a manner unprecedented in contemporary mathematics". He was presented the Onsager Medal, and held his Lars Onsager lecture entitled "Structure and randomness in the prime numbers"[SUP][24][/SUP] at NTNU,Norway.
Tao was also elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[SUP][25][/SUP]
In 2010, he received the King Faisal International Prize jointly with Enrico Bombieri.[SUP][26][/SUP] Also in 2010, he was awarded the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics[SUP][27][/SUP] and the Polya Prize (SIAM).[SUP][28][/SUP] Tao and Van H. Vu solved the circular law conjecture.
Tao also made contributions to the study of the ErdősStraus conjecture in 2011 by showing that the number of solutions to the ErdősStraus equation increases polylogarithmically as n tends to infinity.
In 2012 he and Jean Bourgain received the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[SUP][29][/SUP][SUP][30][/SUP] Also, in 2012, he was selected as a Simons Investigator.[SUP][31][/SUP] He proved that every odd integer greater than 1 is the sum of at most five primes.[SUP][32][/SUP]
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Sciences (Corresponding Member), the National Academy of Sciences (Foreign member), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Mathematical Society.[SUP][33][/SUP] In 2006, he received the Fields Medal "for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory", and in 2007, he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. He has been featured in The New York Times, CNN,USA Today, Popular Science, and many other media outlets.[SUP][34][/SUP]
As of 2013 Tao has published over 250 research papers and 17 books.[SUP][35][/SUP] He has an Erdős number of 2.
[h=2]Book publications[edit][/h]
- Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective,[SUP][36][/SUP] Oxford University Press, 2006
- Analysis, Vols I and II, Hindustan Book Agency, 2006
- Additive Combinatorics, with Van H. Vu, Cambridge University Press, 2006
- Nonlinear dispersive equations: local and global analysis, CBMS regional series in mathematics, 2006.
- Structure and Randomness: pages from year one of a mathematical blog, American Mathematical Society. 2008
- Poincaré's legacies: pages from year two of a mathematical blog, Vols. I and II, American Mathematical Society, 2009
- An Introduction to Measure Theory, American Mathematical Society, 2011
- An Epsilon of Room, I: Real Analysis: pages from year three of a mathematical blog, American Mathematical Society, 2011 (online version)
- An Epsilon of Room, II: pages from year three of a mathematical blog, American Mathematical Society, 2011 (online version)
- An Introduction to Measure Theory. American Mathematical Society, 2011, (online version)
- Topics in Random Matrix Theory, American Mathematical Society, 2012 (online version)
- Higher-order Fourier Analysis, American Mathematical Society, 2012 (online version)
- Compactness and Contradiction, American Mathematical Society, 2013 (online version)
- Arithmetic combinatorics
- Circular law
- GreenTao theorem
- Influence of non-standard analysis
- NavierStokes existence and smoothness
- Tao's inequality
- Twin prime conjecture
- ^ Jump up to:[SUP]a[/SUP] [SUP]b[/SUP] "Vitae and Bibliography for Terence Tao". 12 Oct 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
- Jump up^ Clements, M. A. (Ken) (1984). "Terence Tao". Educational Studies in Mathematics 15(3): 213238. doi:10.1007/BF00312075. JSTOR 3482178.
- Jump up^ Gross, M. U. M. (2003). Exceptionally Gifted Children (2 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31490-9.
- Jump up^ Apple Daily, Page A4, 24 August 2006.
- Jump up^ Radical acceleration in Australia: Terence Tao Also at the age of 8,Tao began to teach high school calculus at Garfield High School after attending calculus courses when he was only 7 years old. .
- Jump up^ It's prime time as numbers man Tao tops his Field Stephen Cauchi, 23 August 2006. Retrieved 31 August 2006.
- Jump up^ "天才数学家陶哲轩 (Mathematical Genius Terence Tao)" (in (Chinese)). Sina.com. 2007-April-02 17:23. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
- Jump up^ Wen Wei Po, Page A4, 24 August 2006.
- Jump up^ Oriental Daily, Page A29, 24 August 2006.
- ^ Jump up to:[SUP]a[/SUP] [SUP]b[/SUP] Nigel makes Waves: Google's bid to overthrow email, Asher Moses, Sydney Morning Herald, 2009-10-02
- Jump up^ History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian
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- Jump up^ Kenneth Chang (13 March 2007). "Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime". New York Times.
- Jump up^ "Corrections: For the Record". New York Times. 13 March 2007.
- ^ Jump up to:[SUP]a[/SUP] [SUP]b[/SUP] "2006 Fields Medals awarded" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society (American Mathematical Society) 53 (9): 10371044. October 2006.
- ^ Jump up to:[SUP]a[/SUP] [SUP]b[/SUP] "Reclusive Russian turns down math world's highest honour". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). 22 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-26.
- Jump up^ NewScientist.com, Prestigious Fields Medals for mathematics awarded, 22 August 2006.
- Jump up^ National Australia Day Committee, 2007 Australian of the Year Finalists. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
- Jump up^ Annual report, Australian Academy of Science, 2008.
- Jump up^ Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society, retrieved 2010-06-09.
- Jump up^ http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/ahlswede/homepage/public/217.pdf
- Jump up^ National Science Foundation, Alan T. Waterman Award. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
- Jump up^ http://www.ntnu.no/imf/onsager
- Jump up^ NTNU's Onsager Lecture, by Terence Tao on YouTube
- Jump up^ "Alphabetical Index of Active AAAS Members". amacad.org. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
His 2009 induction ceremony is here. - Jump up^ King Faisal Foundation retrieved 2010-01-11.
- Jump up^ Major math and science awards announced
- Jump up^ SIAM: George Pólya Prize
- Jump up^The Crafoord Prize in Mathematics 2012 and The Crafoord Prize in Astronomy 2012 - Crafoordprize [NS4 version]
- Jump up^ 4 Scholars Win Crafoord Prizes in Astronomy and Math
- Jump up^ "Simons Investigators 2012". Simons Foundation. Retrieved 2013-10-28.
- Jump up^ [1201.6656] Every odd number greater than 1 is the sum of at most five primes
- Jump up^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-25.
- Jump up^ Media information
- Jump up^ http://ams.math.uni-bielefeld.de/mathscinet/search/publications.html?pg1=IID&s1=361755
- Jump up^ Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective, Oxford University Press2006
[h=2]External links[edit][/h]
- Terence Tao's home page
- Tao's research blog
- Beautiful minds THE AUSTRALIAN 11 August 2007
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Terence Tao", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Terence Tao at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Terence Tao's results at the International Mathematical Olympiad
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- Lars Ahlfors / Jesse Douglas (1936)
- Laurent Schwartz / Atle Selberg (1950)
- Kunihiko Kodaira / Jean-Pierre Serre (1954)
- Klaus Roth / René Thom (1958)
- Lars Hörmander / John Milnor (1962)
- Michael Atiyah / Paul Cohen / Alexander Grothendieck / Stephen Smale (1966)
- Alan Baker / Heisuke Hironaka / Sergei Novikov / John G. Thompson (1970)
- Enrico Bombieri / David Mumford (1974)
- Pierre Deligne / Charles Fefferman / Grigory Margulis / Daniel Quillen (1978)
- Alain Connes / William Thurston / Shing-Tung Yau (1982)
- Simon Donaldson / Gerd Faltings / Michael Freedman (1986)
- Vladimir Drinfeld / Vaughan Jones / Shigefumi Mori / Edward Witten (1990)
- Efim Zelmanov / Pierre-Louis Lions / Jean Bourgain / Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1994)
- Richard Borcherds / Timothy Gowers/ Maxim Kontsevich / Curtis T. McMullen (1998)
- Laurent Lafforgue / Vladimir Voevodsky (2002)
- Andrei Okounkov / Grigo
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