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Terence Chi-Shen Tao (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.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. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians and has been referred to as the "Mozart of mathematics."
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GenderMale
Birthday1975-07-17 (49 years old)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America, Australia
ResidencesUnited States of America, United States of America
AwardsPrincess of Asturias Awards, George Pólya Prize, Crafoord Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Fulbright Program, Fulbright Scholarship, SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, Fields Medal, Fields medal, Australian Mathematical Society Medal, Salem Prize, Ostrowski Prize, Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, Royal medal, Clay Research Award, MacArthur Fellows Program, Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science, Levi L. Conant Prize, King Faisal Prize, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, Alan T. Waterman Award, IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, Onsager Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society, Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, King Faisal International Prize in Science, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Crafoord Prize in Mathematics, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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