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Terence "Terry" Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS () (born 17 July 1975, Adelaide), is an Australian mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics. He currently focuses on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, compressed sensing and analytic number theory. , he holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tao was a co-recipient of the 2006 Fields Medal and the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Tao maintains a personal mathematics blog,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What's new )〕 which has been described by Timothy Gowers as "the undisputed king of all mathematics blogs". == Personal life == Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university level mathematics courses at the age of 9. He and Lenhard Ng are the only two 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 nine years old. Tao scored a 760.〔(Radical acceleration in Australia: Terence Tao )〕 In 1986, 1987, and 1988, Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten, winning a bronze, silver, and gold medal respectively. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday. At age 14, Tao attended the Research Science Institute. When he was 15 he published his first assistant paper. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the age of 16 from Flinders University under Garth Gaudry. In 1992 he won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake postgraduate study 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.〔(It's prime time as numbers man Tao tops his Field ) Stephen Cauchi, 23 August 2006. Retrieved 31 August 2006.〕 He joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. 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. Tao's father was born and grew up in Shanghai, and Tao's mother is Cantonese His parents are first generation immigrants from Hong Kong to Australia.〔''Wen Wei Po'', Page A4, 24 August 2006.〕 His father, Billy Tao () is a pediatrician, and his mother, Grace Tao, is a physics and mathematics graduate from the University of Hong Kong, formerly a secondary school teacher of mathematics in Hong Kong.〔''Oriental Daily'', Page A29, 24 August 2006.〕 Tao has two brothers living in Australia, both of whom represented Australia at the International Mathematical Olympiad. * Nigel Tao was part of the team at Google Australia that created Google Wave.〔(Nigel makes Waves: Google's bid to overthrow email ), Asher Moses, Sydney Morning Herald, 2009-10-02〕 He now works on the Go programming language. * Trevor Tao has a double degree in mathematics and music and is an autistic savant.〔 Tao, his wife Laura, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places - Smithsonian )〕 and their son and daughter live in Los Angeles, California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terence Tao」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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