Professor
Terence Tao
University of California, Los Angeles
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2009
Professor of Mathematics. Recipient of the Fields Medal in 2006. Made fundamental contributions to several areas of mathematics, including harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatoric, analytic number theory and representation theory. In analysis, his results on the Kakeya conjecture are well known. In number theory, he proved with Green, that there exist arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers.
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