Terence Tao is one of the great "problem posers" of his time, since a photograph that went around the world shows him, at ten years old, already at work with the famous Hungarian mathematician.
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Given his life story and exceptional intellectual abilities, mathematician Terence Tao—born in Australia in 1975 and now a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in the United States—has been dubbed the "Mozart of mathematics" by many.
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