| Citation | Professor Terence Tao is a leading mathematician with a background in analysis, but with achievements across many other areas. Tao's contributions to analysis are many and deep, and include global existence, well-posedness and regularity results for many different types of nonlinear PDEs; on the technical level, his papers contain a whole range of important innovations, surprising new insights, and unsuspected links between different areas of mathematics. By relating techniques from analysis to their finite counterparts, he has given ground-breaking solutions to problems across a wide front in mathematics, including combinatorics, computer science, statistics, representation theory and number theory. |