# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terence-tao
# Generated: 2026-08-31T12:55:54.036Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/terence-tao"
name: "Terence Tao"
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description: "Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian and American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. Among his contributions to mathematics is the Green–Tao theorem on prime numbers, which he proved in 2004 in collaboration with Ben Green."
tagline: "Australian-American mathematician"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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