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Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian and American mathematician who 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.
There's only one Terence Tao. He can't do everything at once. You might not be the best mathematician in the world, but you can be the one who has spent the most time thinking about [insert problem here].
Jul 17, 2023 · Terence Tao, fondly known as Terry, was born on July 17, 1975, in Adelaide, Australia. His parents, Billy and Grace Tao, were teachers who had emigrated from Hong Kong. Tao was the eldest...
Jul 24, 2015 · T his April, as undergraduates strolled along the street outside his modest office on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, the mathematician Terence Tao mused about the...
Jun 8, 2024 · Terence Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles, is convinced that these methods open up completely new possibilities for cooperation in mathematics.
Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician who won a Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory. He has continued to prove remarkable results on an exceptionally wide range of topics.
Dec 11, 2019 · On September 8, Terence Tao posted a proof showing that — at the very least — the Collatz conjecture is “almost” true for “almost” all numbers. While Tao’s result is not a full proof of the conjecture, it is a major advance on a problem that doesn’t give up its secrets easily.
