Terence Tao
Terence Tao (born July 17 1975, Adelaide, Australia), is a mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein. He is currently a tenured professor of mathematics at the UCLA in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Laura and son William.
Research and Awards
In 1986, 1987, and 1988, Tao was the youngest participant in the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a bronze, silver, and gold medal respectively. He won the gold medal before he was 13 years old-a feat that has never been paralleled since. He received the Salem Prize in 2000, the Bocher Prize in 2002, and the Clay Research Award in 2003, for his contributions to analysis including work on the Kakeya conjecture and wave maps. In 2005, he received the Levi L. Conant Prize (along with Allen Knutson). In 2004, Ben Green and Terence Tao released a preprint which claimed to prove that there exist arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers.
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