Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician,
Fields medalist, and professor of mathematics at the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...
(UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. His research includes topics in
harmonic analysis,
partial differential equation
In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives.
The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to ho ...
s,
algebraic combinatorics,
arithmetic combinatorics,
geometric combinatorics,
probability theory
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,
compressed sensing and
analytic number theory.
Tao was born to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in
Adelaide
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. Tao won the
Fields Medal in 2006 and won the
Royal Medal and
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014, and is a
2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians.
Life and career
Family
Tao's parents are first generation
immigrants from
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
to
Australia
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.
['' Wen Wei Po'', Page A4, 24 August 2006.] Tao's father, Billy Tao, was a Chinese
paediatrician who was born in
Shanghai and earned his
medical degree
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(
MBBS) from the
University of Hong Kong in 1969. Tao's mother, Grace Leong, was born in Hong Kong; she received a first-class honours degree in
mathematics
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and
physics
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at the
University of Hong Kong.
[Terence Tao: the Mozart of maths](_blank)
7 March 2015, Stephanie Wood, The Sydney Morning Herald
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. 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 in 1972.
Tao also has two brothers, Trevor and Nigel, who are currently living in Australia. Both formerly represented Australia at the
International Mathematical Olympiad.
Furthermore, Trevor Tao has been representing Australia internationally in chess and holds the title of Chess International Master.
Tao speaks Cantonese but cannot write Chinese. Tao is married to Laura Tao, an electrical engineer at
NASA
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's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
They live in
Los Angeles
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, California, and have two children.
Childhood
A
child prodigy, Terence Tao skipped 5 grades. Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university-level mathematics courses at the age of 9. He is one of only three 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 eight years old; Tao scored a 760.
Julian Stanley, Director of the
Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, stated that Tao had the greatest mathematical reasoning ability he had found in years of intensive searching.
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, respectively. Tao remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, having won the gold medal at the age of 13 in 1988.
Career
At age 14, Tao attended the
Research Science Institute, a summer program for secondary students. In 1991, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the age of 16 from
Flinders University under the direction of Garth Gaudry.
[It's prime time as numbers man Tao tops his Field](_blank)
Stephen Cauchi, 23 August 2006. Retrieved 31 August 2006. In 1992, he won a postgraduate
Fulbright Scholarship to undertake research in mathematics at
Princeton University
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in the United States. From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of
Elias Stein, receiving his PhD at the age of 21.
In 1996, he joined the faculty of the
University of California, Los Angeles
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. 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.
He is known for his collaborative mindset; by 2006, Tao had worked with over 30 others in his discoveries,
reaching 68 co-authors by October 2015.
Tao has had a particularly extensive collaboration with British mathematician
Ben J. Green; together they proved the
Green–Tao theorem, which is well known among both amateur and professional mathematicians. This theorem states that there are arbitrarily long
arithmetic progressions of
prime number
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s. ''
The New York Times
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'' described it this way:
Many other results of Tao have received mainstream attention in the scientific press, including:
* his establishment of finite time blowup for a modification of the
Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness Millennium Problem
* his 2015 resolution of the
Erdős discrepancy problem, which used entropy estimates within
analytic number theory
* his 2019 progress on the
Collatz conjecture, in which he proved the probabilistic claim that almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values.
Tao has also resolved or made progress on a number of conjectures. In 2012, Green and Tao announced proofs of the conjectured "
orchard-planting problem," which asks for the maximum number of lines through exactly 3 points in a set of n points in the plane, not all on a line. In 2018, with Brad Rodgers, Tao showed that the
de Bruijn–Newman constant
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, the nonpositivity of which is equivalent to the
Riemann hypothesis, is nonnegative. In 2020, Tao proved
Sendov's conjecture, concerning the locations of the roots and critical points of a complex polynomial, in the special case of polynomials with sufficiently high
degree.
Recognition

Tao has won numerous mathematician honours and awards over the years. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Society
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, the
Australian Academy of Science (Corresponding Member), the
National Academy of Sciences
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(Foreign member), the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society
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, and the
American Mathematical Society. In 2006 he received the
Fields Medal; he was the first Australian, the first
UCLA
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faculty member, and one of the youngest mathematicians to receive the award.
He was also awarded the
MacArthur Fellowship. He has been featured in ''
The New York Times
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'',
CNN, ''
USA Today
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'', ''
Popular Science'', and many other media outlets. In 2014, Tao received a CTY Distinguished Alumni Honor from
Johns Hopkins Center for Gifted and Talented Youth in front of 979 attendees in 8th and 9th grade that are in the same program from which Tao graduated. In 2021, President
Joe Biden
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announced Tao had been selected as one of 30 members of his
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a body bringing together America's most distinguished leaders in science and technology. In 2021, Tao was awarded the
Riemann Prize Week as recipient of the inaugural Riemann Prize 2019 by the Riemann International School of Mathematics at the
University of Insubria. Tao was a finalist to become
Australian of the Year in 2007.
As of 2022, Tao had published over three hundred articles, along with sixteen books. He has an
Erdős number of 2. He is a
highly cited researcher.
An article by ''
New Scientist'' writes of his ability:
British mathematician and Fields medalist
Timothy Gowers remarked on Tao's breadth of knowledge:
Research contributions
Dispersive partial differential equations
From 2001 to 2010, Tao was part of a collaboration with
James Colliander, Markus Keel,
Gigliola Staffilani, and Hideo Takaoka. They found a number of novel results, many to do with the
well-posedness of
weak solutions, for
Schrödinger equations,
KdV equations, and KdV-type equations.
Michael Christ, Colliander, and Tao developed methods of
Carlos Kenig,
Gustavo Ponce, and
Luis Vega to establish ill-posedness of certain Schrödinger and KdV equations for Sobolev data of sufficiently low exponents. In many cases these results were sharp enough to perfectly complement well-posedness results for sufficiently large exponents as due to Bourgain, Colliander−Keel−Staffilani−Takaoka−Tao, and others. Further such notable results for Schrödinger equations were found by Tao in collaboration with Ioan Bejenaru.
A particularly notable result of the Colliander−Keel−Staffilani−Takaoka−Tao collaboration established the long-time existence and scattering theory of a power-law Schrödinger equation in three dimensions. Their methods, which made use of the scale-invariance of the simple power law, were extended by Tao in collaboration with
Monica Vișan and Xiaoyi Zhang to deal with nonlinearities in which the scale-invariance is broken.
Rowan Killip, Tao, and Vișan later made notable progress on the two-dimensional problem in radial symmetry.
An article by Tao in 2001 considered the
wave maps equation with two-dimensional domain and spherical range. He built upon earlier innovations of
Daniel Tataru, who considered wave maps valued in
Minkowski space. Tao proved the global well-posedness of solutions with sufficiently small initial data. The fundamental difficulty is that Tao considers smallness relative to the critical Sobolev norm, which typically requires sophisticated techniques. Tao later adapted some of his work on wave maps to the setting of the
Benjamin–Ono equation; Alexandru Ionescu and Kenig later obtained improved results with Tao's methods.
In 2016, Tao constructed a variant of the
Navier–Stokes equations
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which possess solutions exhibiting irregular behavior in finite time. Due to structural similarities between Tao's system and the Navier–Stokes equations themselves, it follows that any positive resolution of the
Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem must take into account the specific nonlinear structure of the equations. In particular, certain previously proposed resolutions of the problem could not be legitimate. Tao speculated that the Navier–Stokes equations might be able to simulate a
Turing complete system, and that as a consequence it might be possible to (negatively) resolve the existence and smoothness problem using a modification of his results.
However, such results remain (as of 2024) conjectural.
Harmonic analysis
Bent Fuglede introduced the
Fuglede conjecture in the 1970s, positing a
tile-based characterisation of those Euclidean domains for which a Fourier ensemble provides a basis of Tao resolved the conjecture in the negative for dimensions larger than 5, based upon the construction of an elementary counterexample to an analogous problem in the setting of
finite groups.
With Camil Muscalu and
Christoph Thiele, Tao considered certain multilinear
singular integral operators with the multiplier allowed to degenerate on a hyperplane, identifying conditions which ensure operator continuity relative to spaces. This unified and extended earlier notable results of
Ronald Coifman,
Carlos Kenig,
Michael Lacey,
Yves Meyer,
Elias Stein, and Thiele, among others. Similar problems were analysed by Tao in 2001 in the context of Bourgain spaces, rather than the usual spaces. Such estimates are used in establishing well-posedness results for dispersive partial differential equations, following famous earlier work of
Jean Bourgain, Kenig,
Gustavo Ponce, and
Luis Vega, among others.
A number of Tao's results deal with "restriction" phenomena in Fourier analysis, which have been widely studied since the time of the articles of
Charles Fefferman,
Robert Strichartz, and Peter Tomas in the 1970s. Here one studies the operation which restricts input functions on Euclidean space to a
submanifold and outputs the product of the
Fourier transforms of the corresponding measures. It is of major interest to identify exponents such that this operation is continuous relative to spaces. Such multilinear problems originated in the 1990s, including in notable work of
Jean Bourgain,
Sergiu Klainerman, and
Matei Machedon. In collaboration with Ana Vargas and
Luis Vega, Tao made some foundational contributions to the study of the bilinear restriction problem, establishing new exponents and drawing connections to the linear restriction problem. They also found analogous results for the bilinear Kakeya problem which is based upon the
X-ray transform instead of the Fourier transform. In 2003, Tao adapted ideas developed by
Thomas Wolff for bilinear restriction to conical sets into the setting of restriction to quadratic hypersurfaces. The multilinear setting for these problems was further developed by Tao in collaboration with
Jonathan Bennett and Anthony Carbery; their work was extensively used by Bourgain and
Larry Guth in deriving estimates for general
oscillatory integral operators.
Compressed sensing and statistics
In collaboration with
Emmanuel Candes and Justin Romberg, Tao has made notable contributions to the field of
compressed sensing. In mathematical terms, most of their results identify settings in which a convex optimisation problem correctly computes the solution of an optimisation problem which seems to lack a computationally tractable structure. These problems are of the nature of finding the solution of an underdetermined linear system with the minimal possible number of nonzero entries, referred to as "sparsity". Around the same time,
David Donoho considered similar problems from the alternative perspective of high-dimensional geometry.
Motivated by striking numerical experiments, Candes, Romberg, and Tao first studied the case where the matrix is given by the discrete Fourier transform. Candes and Tao abstracted the problem and introduced the notion of a "restricted linear isometry," which is a matrix that is quantitatively close to an isometry when restricted to certain subspaces. They showed that it is sufficient for either exact or optimally approximate recovery of sufficiently sparse solutions. Their proofs, which involved the theory of convex duality, were markedly simplified in collaboration with Romberg, to use only linear algebra and elementary ideas of harmonic analysis. These ideas and results were later improved by Candes. Candes and Tao also considered relaxations of the sparsity condition, such as power-law decay of coefficients. They complemented these results by drawing on a large corpus of past results in random matrix theory to show that, according to the Gaussian ensemble, a large number of matrices satisfy the restricted isometry property.
In 2007, Candes and Tao introduced a novel statistical estimator for linear regression, which they called the "Dantzig selector." They proved a number of results on its success as an estimator and model selector, roughly in parallel to their earlier work on compressed sensing. A number of other authors have since studied the Dantzig selector, comparing it to similar objects such as the
statistical lasso introduced in the 1990s.
Trevor Hastie,
Robert Tibshirani, and
Jerome H. Friedman conclude that it is "somewhat unsatisfactory" in a number of cases. Nonetheless, it remains of significant interest in the statistical literature.
In 2009, Candes and Benjamin Recht considered an analogous problem for recovering a matrix from knowledge of only a few of its entries and the information that the matrix is of low rank. They formulated the problem in terms of convex optimisation, studying minimisation of the nuclear norm. Candes and Tao, in 2010, developed further results and techniques for the same problem. Improved results were later found by Recht. Similar problems and results have also been considered by a number of other authors.
Random matrices
In the 1950s,
Eugene Wigner initiated the study of
random matrices and their eigenvalues. Wigner studied the case of
hermitian and
symmetric matrices, proving a "semicircle law" for their eigenvalues. In 2010, Tao and
Van Vu made a major contribution to the study of non-symmetric random matrices. They showed that if is large and the entries of a matrix are selected randomly according to any fixed
probability distribution
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of
expectation 0 and
standard deviation
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1, then the eigenvalues of will tend to be uniformly scattered across the disk of radius around the origin; this can be made precise using the language of
measure theory
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. This gave a proof of the long-conjectured
circular law, which had previously been proved in weaker formulations by many other authors. In Tao and Vu's formulation, the circular law becomes an immediate consequence of a "universality principle" stating that the distribution of the eigenvalues can depend only on the average and standard deviation of the given component-by-component probability distribution, thereby providing a reduction of the general circular law to a calculation for specially-chosen probability distributions.
In 2011, Tao and Vu established a "four
moment theorem", which applies to random
hermitian matrices whose components are independently distributed, each with average 0 and standard deviation 1, and which are exponentially unlikely to be large (as for a
Gaussian distribution
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f(x ...
). If one considers two such random matrices which agree on the average value of any quadratic polynomial in the diagonal entries and on the average value of any quartic polynomial in the off-diagonal entries, then Tao and Vu show that the expected value of a large number of functions of the eigenvalues will also coincide, up to an error which is uniformly controllable by the size of the matrix and which becomes arbitrarily small as the size of the matrix increases. Similar results were obtained around the same time by László Erdös,
Horng-Tzer Yau, and Jun Yin.
Analytic number theory and arithmetic combinatorics

In 2004, Tao, together with
Jean Bourgain and
Nets Katz, studied the additive and multiplicative structure of subsets of
finite fields of prime order. It is well known that there are no nontrivial
subrings of such a field. Bourgain, Katz, and Tao provided a quantitative formulation of this fact, showing that for any subset of such a field, the number of sums and products of elements of the subset must be quantitatively large, as compared to the size of the field and the size of the subset itself. Improvements of their result were later given by Bourgain, Alexey Glibichuk, and
Sergei Konyagin.
Tao and
Ben Green proved the existence of arbitrarily long
arithmetic progressions in the
prime number
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s; this result is generally referred to as the
Green–Tao theorem, and is among Tao's most well-known results. The source of Green and Tao's arithmetic progressions is
Endre Szemerédi's
1975 theorem on existence of arithmetic progressions in certain sets of integers. Green and Tao showed that one can use a "transference principle" to extend the validity of Szemerédi's theorem to further sets of integers. The Green–Tao theorem then arises as a special case, although it is not trivial to show that the prime numbers satisfy the conditions of Green and Tao's extension of the Szemerédi theorem.
In 2010, Green and Tao gave a multilinear extension of Dirichlet's celebrated
theorem on arithmetic progressions. Given a matrix and a matrix whose components are all integers, Green and Tao give conditions on when there exist infinitely many matrices such that all components of are prime numbers. The proof of Green and Tao was incomplete, as it was conditioned upon unproven conjectures. Those conjectures were proved in later work of Green, Tao, and
Tamar Ziegler.
Notable awards
Terence Tao has won numerous awards for his work. He won the
Fields Medal, the highest award of mathematics, in 2006.
* 1999 –
Packard Fellowship
* 2000 –
Salem Prize for:
::"his work in harmonic analysis and on related questions in
geometric measure theory and
partial differential equation
In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives.
The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to ho ...
s."
* 2002 –
Bôcher Memorial Prize for:
::''Global regularity of wave maps I. Small critical Sobolev norm in high dimensions.''
Internat. Math. Res. Notices (2001), no. 6, 299–328.
::''Global regularity of wave maps II. Small energy in two dimensions.''
Comm. Math. Phys. 2244 (2001), no. 2, 443–544.
:in addition to "his remarkable series of papers, written in collaboration with J. Colliander, M. Keel, G. Staffilani, and H. Takaoka, on global regularity in optimal Sobolev spaces for KdV and other equations, as well as his many deep contributions to Strichartz and bilinear estimates."
* 2003 –
Clay Research Award for:
::his restriction theorems in
Fourier analysis, his work on
wave maps, his global existence theorems for KdV-type equations, and for his solution with
Allen Knutson of Horn's conjecture
* 2005 –
Australian Mathematical Society Medal
* 2005 –
Ostrowski Prize (with
Ben Green) for:
::"their exceptional achievements in the area of analytic and combinatorial number theory"
* 2005 –
Levi L.Conant Prize (with
Allen Knutson) for:
::their expository article "Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices" (Notices of the AMS. 48 (2001), 175–186.)
* 2006 –
Fields Medal for:
::"his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory"
* 2006 –
MacArthur Award
* 2006 –
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
* 2006 –
Sloan Fellowship
* 2007 –
Fellow of the Royal Society
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* 2008 –
Alan T. Waterman Award for:
::"his surprising and original contributions to many fields of mathematics, including number theory, differential equations, algebra, and harmonic analysis"
* 2008 –
Onsager Medal for:
::"his combination of mathematical depth, width and volume in a manner unprecedented in contemporary mathematics". His Lars Onsager lecture was entitled "Structure and randomness in the prime numbers" at
NTNU, Norway.
* 2009 – Inducted into the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* 2010 –
King Faisal International Prize
* 2010 –
Nemmers Prize in Mathematics
* 2010 –
Polya Prize (with
Emmanuel Candès)
* 2012 –
Crafoord Prize
* 2012 –
Simons Investigator
* 2014 –
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
::"For numerous breakthrough contributions to harmonic analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations and analytic number theory."
* 2014 –
Royal Medal
* 2015 – PROSE award in the category of "Mathematics" for:
::"Hilbert's Fifth Problem and Related Topics"
* 2019 –
Riemann Prize
* 2019 –
The Carnegie Corporation of New York honored Tao with 2019
Great Immigrant Award.
* 2020 –
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, with
Emmanuel Candès, for their work on
compressed sensing
* 2020 –
Bolyai Prize
* 2021 –
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
* 2022 – Global Australian of the Year (Advance Global Australians; Advance.org)
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Tess Bennett, Australian Financial Review, 2022-09-07, accessed 2022-09-14
* 2022 –
Grande Médaille
* 2023 –
Alexanderson Award (with
Kaisa Matomäki,
Maksym Radziwiłł, Joni Teräväinen, and
Tamar Ziegler) for:
::''Higher uniformity of bounded multiplicative functions in short intervals on average.''
Annals of Mathematics
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History
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, Second Series (2023), 197(2): 739–857.
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Cramer conjecture
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Goldbach's weak conjecture
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Inscribed square problem
References
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