UCLA mathematics professor Terence Tao already has a bevy of
prestigious awards for his work in such fields as number theory and
harmonic analysis. Now he is adding one more lucrative prize.
Tao,
38, has been named one of five winners of the new Breakthrough Prize in
Mathematics, an award that provides $3 million to each of its
recipients from a fund established by high-tech titans in Silicon Valley
and Russia.
In
2006, he won the Fields Medal, described as the Nobel Prize of math,
and also a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation grant, which is often referred
to as the “genius prize.” ...
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