UCLA Professor named one of the ten greatest mathematicians ever

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<p>The</a> 10 best mathematicians | Culture | The Observer</p>

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Terry Tao (b1975)
An Australian of Chinese heritage who lives in the US, Tao also won (and accepted) the Fields Medal in 2006. Together with Ben Green, he proved an amazing result about prime numbers – that you can find sequences of primes of any length in which every number in the sequence is a fixed distance apart. For example, the sequence 3, 7, 11 has three primes spaced 4 apart. The sequence 11, 17, 23, 29 has four primes that are 6 apart. While sequences like this of any length exist, no one has found one of more than 25 primes, since the primes by then are more than 18 digits long.

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<p>That’s weird, I’m pretty sure Calin Martin should have won</p>

<p>Not</p>

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<p>Ouch</p>

<p>The Math Department’s other Martin, is a bit more significant - [Martin’s</a> axiom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin’s_axiom]Martin’s”>Martin's axiom - Wikipedia).</p>

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<p>i remember when he won the Fields Medal. They had a small reception in the court of sciences and they gave free food. He didn’t say much.</p>

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<p>I have friends who had Tao, saying he was definitely brilliant, but was not really a great lecturer.</p>

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<p>The dude is smart</p>

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<p>^^Which class? 33A? I would agree that someone as brilliant as Tao would be wasted on a lower division course.</p>