Australian-American mathematician at UCLA — Fields Medal (2006) — who has made fundamental contributions to harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, and number theory — widely considered the greatest living mathematician.
Creates breakthrough results across multiple mathematical subfields — Tao's Green-Tao theorem (primes contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions, 2004) and his compressed sensing work (with Candès) are the most significant results; his breadth across multiple subfields is unique in contemporary mathematics.
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