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Terence Tao

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in Adelaide, Australia

July 17, 1975

Website

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao

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Terence "Terry" Tao FAA FRS (simplified Chinese: 陶哲轩; traditional Chinese: 陶哲軒; pinyin: Táo Zhéxuān) is an Australian-American mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics. He currently focuses on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, compressed sensing and analytic number theory. As of 2015, he holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tao was a co-recipient of the 2006 Fields Medal and the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. ...more

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Products of consecutive integers with unusual anatomy

I’ve just uploaded to the arXiv my paper “Products of consecutive integers with unusual anatomy“. This paper answers some questions of Erdős and Graham which were initially motivated by the study of the Diophantine factorial equation

$\displaystyle a_1! a_2! a_3! = m^2$

where ${a_1 < a_2 < a_3}$ and {m}

are positive integers. Writing ${(a,N,N+H) = (a_1,a_2,a_3)}$ , one can rewrite this equation as where {s(n)}

denotes the squarefree part of {n}

(the smallest factor of {n}

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	Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective 4.19 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analysis I 4.56 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analysis II (Texts and Readings in Mathematics, No. 38) 4.58 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Introduction to Measure Theory (Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 126) 4.41 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Additive Combinatorics (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Series Number 105) by Terence Tao, Van H. Vu 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Topics in Random Matrix Theory (Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 132) 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Structure and Randomness: Pages from Year One of a Mathematical Blog 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Epsilon of Room, I: Real Analysis: Pages from Year Three of a Mathematical Blog 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Epsilon of Room, II: Pages from Year Three of a Mathematical Blog (Monograph Book) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Compactness and Contradiction 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Mathematical problems, or puzzles, are important to real mathematics (like solving real-life problems), just as fables, stories and anecdotes are important to the young in understanding real life”
― Terence Tao, Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective

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Products of consecutive integers with unusual anatomy

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249 posts
Terence Tao's Blog

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Terence Tao’s books