![]() ![]() But you can’t jump cliffs in a single bound.” ― Terence Tao A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. And then, once you get there, you do it again. ![]() You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. But that’s not what you focus on immediately. “You want to get to the top of the cliff. “I always liked situations where there were very clear rules of what to do.” ― Terence Tao “Most of what I do does not save lives.” ― Terence Tao I talk online or with a colleague, and I get interested, and I just follow where it leads.” ― Terence Tao “A lot of the math that I do, it’s not sort of premeditated. “When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.” ― Terence Tao “When you’re concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it’s just you and a math problem.” ― Terence Tao “I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort of solved them.” ― Terence Tao The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics – for instance, in framing future directions of research – which means that I have to watch what I say more carefully now!” ― Terence Tao “It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. “What interests me is the connection between maths and the real world.” ― Terence Tao “Mathematicians are fairly cheap.” ― Terence Tao “Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I’m betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.” ― Terence Tao This is no longer so relevant.” ― Terence Tao In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of mathematics was navigating the ocean. “Math education has changed over the years. “Math research is more like a marathon.” ― Terence Tao “I was never very good at school with… humanities… anything which was more a matter of opinion.” ― Terence Tao So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the most emphasized, and for good reason – these are very important.” ― Terence Tao “The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. “Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.” ― Terence Tao ![]() “I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields of mathematics, or have shown me new insights.” ― Terence Tao “I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.” ― Terence Tao He holds the James and Carol Collins chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tao is married and his wife, Laura, is an electrical engineer at NASA. They live in Los Angeles, California with their son and daughter William and Madeleine. He is the second Han Chinese descent and first Australian to win the Fields medal. He is the author and co-author of more than 270 research papers. In 2014, he won the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Tao is a recipient of the 2006 Fields Medal. He is well known for the Green-Tao theorem, compressed sensing, Tao’s inequality, horn conjecture, Cramer and Callatz conjecture, uncountable Moore-Schmidt theorem and more. He participated in years 1986, 1987, and 1988 and went on to win a bronze, silver, and gold medal.īy today, he has won numerous awards and honors for his extraordinary work in the field of mathematics. He participated in the competition at the age of 10. Tao is the youngest contestant to this date in the International Mathematical Olympiad. Tao showcased extraordinary mathematical abilities since childhood and attended university-level courses at the age of 9. His father was a doctor and his mother was a secondary-school mathematics teacher. His parents were immigrants from Hong Kong and settled in Australia in 1972. Tao was born on 17 July 1975 in Adelaide, South Australia. ![]()
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