Terry Tao wins $3m breakthrough prize (2 Viewers)

[tywebb]

Terry Tao has won one of the $3m breakthrough prizes:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/with-awards-like-the-breakthrough-prize-who-needs-a-nobel/

That's worth more than a Nobel Prize!

 

[braintic]

Who is Terry Tao?

 

[tywebb]

The first (and so far the only) Australian to win a Fields medal.

He's quite famous.

 

[seanieg89]

Who is Terry Tao?

A leading mathematician who was born in Australia and works at UCLA. He was a child prodigy and has lived up to his potential. He is conversant with a ridiculously broad array of topics and continues to output very original and sometimes technical research (his specialty being harmonic analysis and PDE).

My PhD adviser is actually an old friend of his who has collaborated with him in several papers.