Terence Tao Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Terence Tao works in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, analytic number theory, arithmetic combinatorics and related areas.[ref] His Nonlinear dispersive equations: local and global analysis by Terence Tao studies the existence and evolution of nonlinear waves, while 254A: Topics in Ergodic Theory by Terence Tao develops mathematical tools for long-time averages and recurrence. These works connect estimates for functions and operators with qualitative questions about dynamical evolution.
Homepage: www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
Portrait of Terence Tao
. Gert-Martin Greuel, ICM Madrid, 2006; Mathematisches Institut Oberwolfach, photo 8483; existing crop by FMSky. CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.