Fields Medal
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The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians of the International Mathematical Union, a convention wh
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Terence Tao
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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
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…of Sciences, Russia "For his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow." Terence Tao University of California, Los Angeles, US "For his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number…
Tao in 2026
Tao at ICM 2006
Tao at the age of 10 with mathematician Paul Erdős in 1985
Tao (second from left) with UCLA undergraduate students in 2021