Terence Tao: Quick Facts
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Facts
| Born | July 17, 1975 (age 51) • Adelaide • Australia |
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| Awards And Honors | Fields Medal (2006) |
| Subjects Of Study | Schrödinger equation • arithmetic progression • gravitational wave • partial differential equation • prime |
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