Terence Tao Biography
Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician who has contributed enormously to the field of mathematics. He is a recipient of ‘Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science’ and ‘Fellow of the Royal Society’. Tao’s interest in mathematics developed from childhood, and he has achieved success because of his work ever since he was 10 years of age.
Tao’s father “Dr. Billy Tao” was a pediatrician born in Shanghai, China. He earned his medical degree (MBBS) from the University of Hong Kong in 1969. Tao’s mother “Grace Tao” is from Hong Kong. She received a first-class honors degree in physics and mathematics at the University of Hong Kong. She was a secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics in Hong Kong.
Billy and Grace met as students at the University of Hong Kong. They then emigrated from Hong Kong to Australia. Tao has two brothers, Nigel and Trevor, living in Australia. Both formerly represented Australia at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Tao started showing mathematical abilities from an early age. Attending university-level mathematics courses at the age of 9. He and Lenhard Ng are the only two children in the history of the Johns Hopkins’ Study of Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just nine years old.
Tao scored a 760. Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten. in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad’s history. He won the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday.
At age 14, Tao attended the Research Science Institute. He published his first assistant paper at the age of 15. In 1991, he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the age of 16 from Flinders University under Garth Gaudry. In 1992, he won a Postgraduate Fulbright Scholarship to undertake research in Mathematics (Topology) at Princeton University in the United States.
From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein, receiving his Ph.D. at the age of 21. He then (in 1996) joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1999, when he was 24, he was promoted to full professor at UCLA and remains the youngest person ever appointed to that rank by the institution.
After completing his PhD at the age of 21, Terence Tao joined the University of California as a faculty. At the age of 24, he became a full-time professor at UCLA and the youngest ever to be appointed on that rank at UCLA. Along with Ben J. Green of Oxford University, Tao proved the Green-Tao theorem which is one of his acclaimed works. By 2006, Tao had worked with over 30 others and collaborated with 68 co-authors.
For his Green-Tao theorem, Tao received many medals and awards. He became the youngest mathematician, and the first UCLA faculty member to be awarded Fields Medal in 2006. For his phenomenal work, he was nominated for Australian of the Year in 2007. Tao published another work ‘Tao’s inequality’ in the same year. In 2007, Tao and a Vietnamese Mathematician from Yale University, Van H. Vu unraveled the circular law conjecture.
In 2010, along with Ben Green, Tao came up with proof of the Hardy-Littlewood prime tuples conjecture for any linear system of finite complexity. He also contributed to the study of Erdos-Straus conjecture, in 2011. In this study, he proved that the number of solutions to the Erdos-Straus equation increases poly logarithmically as n tends to infinity.
In 2012, Tao proved that every odd integer greater than 1 is the sum of at most five primes. In the same year, he was also selected as a Simons Investigator and received Crafoord Prize with Jean Bourgain. Ben Green and Tao collaborated again in 2012 and proved Dirac-Motzkin conjecture and the ‘orchard-planting problem’. Also, Tao published his first monograph on the topic ‘Higher Order Fourier Analysis’. Tao proved the Erdos discrepancy problem in September 2015, using entropy estimates with analytic number theory for the first time.
Terrence Tao’s contribution to the field of mathematics has been huge. But, his most notable work has been the Green-Tao theorem which he proved with his long-time collaborator, Ben Green. Due to this work, Tao became a corresponding member of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2007, he was also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Also, Tao was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal of 2004 for the Green-Tao theorem.
Terence Tao Age|How Old Is Terrence Tao?
Terence was born on July 17, 1975, and is currently 44 years old as of 2019. His birth sign is Cancer. Terence celebrates his birthday on the 17th of July each and every year.
Terence Tao Height|How Tall Is Terence Tao?
Information on his height is still unknown at the moment. This information will be updated soon.
Terence Tao IQ
Terence Tao (IQ Level- 225-230) Another child prodigy yet again. This genius taught arithmetic to a 5-year-old when he himself was all of 2. He attended mathematics courses at the university level when he was just 9 years old. At 14, Terence Tao attended the Research Science Institute. At 16, he received both his Bachelors’s and Master’s degrees and by 20 had received his Doctorate as well. He remains the youngest winner till the date of all the three medals in Olympiads.
Terence Tao Blog
Tao established the blog in February 2007 as a way to facilitate updates on his faculty home page. Four days later he posted an entry that compared quantum mechanics to the videogame Tomb Raider, and 57 reader comments followed. Entries that would once get one or no comments started to get 30. Tao responded by posting class notes, lecture slides, open questions, and comments. Traffic to his site reached 125,000 page views in September, some of it from readers in developing countries without access to advanced university courses.
Terence Tao UCLA
Terence is a professor at the department of mathematics, UCLA. he works in a number of mathematical areas but mostly in harmonic analysis, PDE, geometric combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, analytic number theory, compressed sensing, and algebraic combinatorics. He is also a part of the analysis group at UCLA and also an editor at several mathematical journals.
Terence Tao Wife
Terence is married to Laura Tao. Before laura became Terence’s wife she actually attended one of his classes at UCLA in 2000. Even though Laura is now a housewife, who looks after Tao and their two kids, she is also a genius in her own right. She used to be an electrical engineer at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Terrence and Laura have two children together son- William Tao and daughter Madeleine Tao.
Terence Tao Net Worth
Terence has an estimated net worth of 550,000 dollars as of 2019.
Terence Tao Facebook
Terence Tao Books
- Analysis
- Solving Mathematical Problems
- Structure and randomness
- Analysis II: Third Edition
- An Introduction to Measure Theory
- Higher-Order Fourier Analysis
- An Epsilon of Room, I: Real Analysis: pages from year three of a mathematical blog
- Topics in Random Matrix Theory
- Compactness and Contradiction
- Poincaré’s legacies: pages from year two of a mathematical blog Vol II
- Nonlinear Dispersive Equations: Local and Global Analysis
- Additive Combinatorics
- An Epsilon of Room, II: pages from year three of a mathematical blog