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4 unusual facts about Terence Tao


Blackwood High School

Terence Tao, mathematician and 2006 recipient of the Fields Medal

Flinders University

Terence Tao (1975-), Fields Medalist, professor of mathematics at University of California Los Angeles

Miraca Gross

Her 1993 book Exceptionally Gifted Children presents fifteen subjects selected from a longitudinal study of 40 Australian children with IQs in excess of 160, including Fields Medal recipient Terence Tao among others.

Terence Tao

When asked by his father how he knew numbers and letters, he said he learned them from Sesame Street.


Compressed sensing

Around 2004, Emmanuel Candès, Terence Tao, and David Donoho proved that given knowledge about a signal's sparsity, the signal may be reconstructed with fewer samples than the Nyquist-Shannon theorem requires.

The results found by Emmanuel Candès, Justin Romberg, Terence Tao and David Donoho, showed that the number of these compressive measurements can be small and still contain nearly all the useful information.

Levi L. Conant Prize

2005: Allen Knutson, Terence Tao for Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices. Notices of the AMS, Vol.


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