Terence Tao | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

UCLA

Terence Tao is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, UCLA, where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. He works in a number of mathematical areas but primarily in harmonic analysis, PDE, geometric combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, analytic number theory, compressed sensing, and algebraic combinatorics. Professor Tao is part of the Analysis Group at UCLA, and also an editor or associate editor at several mathematical journals.

For centuries, mathematicians have relied on computers to perform calculations, to suggest conjectures, and as components of mathematical proofs. In the light of more modern tools such as interactive theorem provers, machine learning algorithms, and...