Terence Tao

Terence Tao

FAA FRS
Terence Tao; FAA FRS
	Tao in 2021
Born	17 July 1975 (age 48); Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Citizenship	Australia; United States[1];
Alma mater	Flinders University (BS, MSc); Princeton University (PhD);
Known for	Partial Differential Equations Analytic Number Theory Random matrices Compressed Sensing Combinatorics Dynamical Systems
Spouse	Laura Tao
Children	2
Awards	Fields Medal (2006) List Salem Prize (2000); Bôcher Memorial Prize (2002); Clay Research Award (2003); Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2005); Ostrowski Prize (2005) ; Levi L. Conant Prize (2005); MacArthur Award (2006); SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2006); Sloan Fellowship (2006); Fellow of the Royal Society (2007) ; Alan T. Waterman Award (2008); Onsager Medal (2008); King Faisal International Prize (2010)[2]; Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2010) ; Pólya Prize (2010)[3]; Crafoord Prize (2012); Simons Investigator (2012); Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014) ; Royal Medal (2014); PROSE Award (2015); Riemann Prize (2019); Princess of Asturias Award (2020); Bolyai Prize (2020); IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2021); Global Australian of the Year Award (2022) ; Grande Médaille (2023);
	Scientific career
Fields	Harmonic analysis
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	Three Regularity Results in Harmonic Analysis[1] (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Elias M. Stein
Doctoral students	Monica Vișan
Website	www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/; terrytao.wordpress.com; mathstodon.xyz/@tao

Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing and analytic number theory.[4]

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Tao was born to ethnic 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. He is also a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers.[5] He is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians and has been referred to as the "Mozart of mathematics."[6][7][8][9][10]

Australian–American mathematician (born 1975) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terence Tao FAA FRS
Tao in 2021
Born	(1975-07-17) 17 July 1975 (age 48) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Citizenship	Australia United States[1]
Alma mater	Flinders University (BS, MSc) Princeton University (PhD)
Known for	Partial Differential Equations Analytic Number Theory Random matrices Compressed Sensing Combinatorics Dynamical Systems
Spouse	Laura Tao
Children	2
Awards	Fields Medal (2006) List Salem Prize (2000) Bôcher Memorial Prize (2002) Clay Research Award (2003) Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2005) Ostrowski Prize (2005) Levi L. Conant Prize (2005) MacArthur Award (2006) SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2006) Sloan Fellowship (2006) Fellow of the Royal Society (2007) Alan T. Waterman Award (2008) Onsager Medal (2008) King Faisal International Prize (2010)[2] Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2010) Pólya Prize (2010)[3] Crafoord Prize (2012) Simons Investigator (2012) Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014) Royal Medal (2014) PROSE Award (2015) Riemann Prize (2019) Princess of Asturias Award (2020) Bolyai Prize (2020) IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2021) Global Australian of the Year Award (2022) Grande Médaille (2023)
Scientific career
Fields	Harmonic analysis
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	Three Regularity Results in Harmonic Analysis[1] (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Elias M. Stein
Doctoral students	Monica Vișan

Website	www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/ terrytao.wordpress.com mathstodon.xyz/@tao