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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Terence Tao, Renfrey Potts, Igor Kluvanek, John Henry Michell, Pat Moran, Thomas Gerald Room, Samuel McLaren, George Szekeres, Charles E. M. Pearce, Keith Edward Bullen, Ernie Tuck, John H. Coates, Adam Spencer, Akshay Venkatesh, Richard P. Brent, William Scott, George Batchelor, Kenneth McIntyre, Gavin Brown, Mark D. McDonnell, Thomas MacFarland Cherry, Mike Alder, John Crossley, Alexander MacAulay, Mathai Varghese, John Wamsley, E. J. G. Pitman, Ian Sloan, J. Hyam Rubinstein, Lyndhurst Giblin, Max Kelly, Peter Donnelly, William Bertram, Ian Grojnowski, Leon Simon, Bernhard Neumann, Ian G. Enting, Brendan McKay, Cheryl Praeger, Andrew Prentice, Robert Bartnik, Peter Cameron, Lily Serna, Neil Trudinger, Michael Cowling, Harry Lindgren, Esther Szekeres, John Stillwell, Geoffrey Watson, David Makinson, Danny Calegari, Roger Wolcott Richardson, Jennifer Seberry, Charles Angas Hurst, Nalini Joshi, Horatio Scott Carslaw, Alexander Molev, Simon Davis, Morris Birkbeck Pell, Robert William Chapman. Excerpt: Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: ) (born 17 July 1975, Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. His single most famous result, joint with Ben J. Green, is a proof that there exist arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers (the Green-Tao theorem). Tao is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. In August 2006, he was awarded a Fields Medal, widely considered the top honour a mathematician can receive. In September 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 18 May 2007. He became a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of ...