Terence Tao
Terence Tao AC FAA FRS | |
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Tao in 2026 | |
| Born | Terence Chi-Shen Tao 17 July 1975 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
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| Known for | Green–Tao theorem Erdős discrepancy problem Collatz conjecture Maynard–Tao theorem |
| Spouse | Laura Tao |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Fields Medal (2006) List
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| Fields | Harmonic analysis Combinatorics Number theory Statistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | Three Regularity Results in Harmonic Analysis (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Elias M. Stein |
Doctoral students | Monica Vișan, Tim Austin |
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| Traditional Chinese | 陶哲軒 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Terence Chi-Shen Tao AC FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲轩; pinyin: Táo Zhéxuān; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian and American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. Among his contributions to mathematics is the Green–Tao theorem on prime numbers, which he proved in 2004 in collaboration with Ben Green.
Tao was born to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. After studying at Princeton and joining the faculty at UCLA, he went on to be a researcher, known for the diversity of his own interests and his collaborations with others. Tao has won many prizes for his work, including the Fields Medal in 2006 and the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014. He is a 2006 MacArthur Fellow.
Tao's published research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing, and analytic number theory.