Dr. Terence Tao

Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Author

• Szemerédi's Theorem
• (2007) Ben Joseph Green, Terence Tao

Featured Author: Terence Tao

Terence Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1975. He has been a professor of mathematics at UCLA since 1999, having completed his PhD under Elias Stein at Princeton in 1996. Tao's areas of research include harmonic analysis, PDE, combinatorics, and number theory. He has received a number of awards, including the Salem Prize in 2000, the Bochner Prize in 2002, the Fields Medal and SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2006, and the MacArthur Fellowship and Ostrowski Prize in 2007. Terence Tao also currently holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at UCLA, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Sciences (Corresponding Member).

Scholarpedia article:

Green B.J. and Tao T. (2007) Szemerédi's Theorem, Scholarpedia, p.15583

List of previous featured authors