TERENCE TAO

TERENCE TAO

• Born - 17th July 1975 Adelaide, South

Australia.
• College – Bachelor’s and Master’s degree
from Flinder’s University, Ph.D from
Princeton’s University.
• Academic adivisor’s – Garth Gaudry, Elais
Stein.
EARLY LIFE

• When he was 7, he was teaching himself

calculus.
• He was the youngest Gold – Medalist at the age
of 12 at International Mathematical Olympiad.
• At the age of 14 he began full time university
study at flinder’s university and was awarded
with honours in December 1991.
TERENCE TAO – “THE MOZART OF
MATHEMATICS”
• Submitted his first research paper at 15.
• Completed Bachelor’s at 16 and Master’s at 17.
• Completed his Ph.D at 21 from Princeton
University.
• At 24, he became a professor at UCLA and the
youngest ever to be appointed at that rank in
the UCLA.
• He is the mathematician closest to solving the
Twin prime conjectures, one of the seven
Millennium problems.
ACHIEVEMENTS

• Currently he holds the James and Carols Collins

Chair in mathematics at UCLA.
• He is a fellow of Royal Society, the Australian
academy of sciences, National Academy of
Sciences and the American academy of arts and
sciences.
PRESENT LIFE

• He is a professor at the department of

mathematics, UCLA working in a number of
mathematical areas, but primarily in Harmonic
Analysis, PDE, Geometric combinatorics,
Arithmetic combinatorics, Analytic Number
Theory.
• He is an editor at several mathematical journals
and currently administering his personal blog.
“ Ultimately you should follow
advice not because someone
tells you to, but because it was
something that you already
knew you should be doing”
THANK YOU