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Terence tao children12/30/2023 ![]() “The best students in the world in number theory all want to study with Terry,” Chan added. What is also amazing is that Terry is still so young. The way he crosses areas would be like the best heart surgeon also being exceptional in brain surgery. People all over the world say, ‘UCLA’s so lucky to have Terry Tao.’ He has solved important problems in several areas of mathematics that have stumped others for a long time. ![]() “Someone like Terry comes along once every few decades. ![]() “I’m not surprised,” said Tony Chan, dean of the Division of Physical Sciences and professor of mathematics. Terry can unravel an enormously complicated mathematical problem and reduce it to something very simple.” He’s an incredible talent, and probably the best mathematician in the world right now. ![]() Mathematicians with Terry’s talent appear only once in a generation. “Terry is like Mozart mathematics just flows out of him,” said John Garnett, professor and former chair of mathematics at UCLA, “except without Mozart’s personality problems everyone likes him. In the 70 years the prize has been awarded by the International Mathematical Union, only 48 researchers ever have won it. Terence Tao became the first mathematics professor in UCLA history to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, often described as the “Nobel Prize in mathematics,” during the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid on Aug. ![]()
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