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Something wrong?A Fields Medal at 31 for proving that prime numbers hide infinitely long arithmetic progressions - a pattern inside what looks like chaos. Terence Tao works across more corners of mathematics than most touch in a career, and the discipline watches what he picks up next.
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, For the third law.., Kepler had... 6 data points..: every planet.., the length of the orbit and the distance to the sun.., and he did... regression.
There was a later astronomer, Johann Bode who took the same data... and... had a prediction that the distances to the planets formed a shifted ...
Gauss... created one of the first mathematical data sets. He computed the first [~]100,000 prime numbers.
Awards
About this person
Born in Adelaide in 1975 to Chinese immigrant parents, Tao earned his doctorate from Princeton and landed at UCLA, where the range opened up: harmonic analysis, combinatorics, compressed sensing, number theory, partial differential equations. In 2004 he and Ben Green proved the Green-Tao theorem, showing that primes contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions - a result that married structure and infinity. The Fields Medal followed in 2006, then a MacArthur Fellowship the same year, the Breakthrough Prize in 2014, and the Royal Medal alongside it. He collaborates widely, moves between problems most mathematicians would need separate lives to attempt, and has been called the finest mathematician of his generation by peers who rarely deal in superlatives.
In common with Terence
Yitang ZhangAlso in Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015)
Kenneth RibetAlso in Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015)Andrew GranvilleAlso in Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015)
John von NeumannBoth received Bôcher Memorial Prize
Richard BorcherdsBoth received Fields medal
Maryam MirzakhaniBoth received Clay Research AwardFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.