Quiz 6: World Most Famous Mathematician,Terence Tao

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Created by Isabelle Yeong on May 15th 2015

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Question 1: Terence Tao started his high school at age (_), and received his bachelor's and master's degree at the age of (_), and finally obtained his PhD at (_).

Terence Tao, born July 17, 1975, Adelaide, Australia, is an Australian mathematician and lived in Australia until 1992. He then migrated to the U.S. with his Chinese parents and hence have lived in the U.S. since 1992. He is a profoundly gifted young mathematician. Julian Stanley, Director of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Johns Hopkins University states that Terry has the greatest mathematical reasoning ability he has found in 14 years of intensive searching.

8, 16, 21

8, 16, 24

9, 15, 20

10, 18, 21

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Question 2: In International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) contest, Terence Tao won a bronze medal in (_), and a silver medal in (_), and finally a gold medal in (_).

1986, 1987, 1989

1986, 1987, 1988

1985, 1987, 1989

1985, 1986, 1987

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Question 3: Terence Tao is currently a Math Professor in ___.

University of California, Berkeley

Princeton University

Stanford University

University of California, Los Angeles

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Question 4: Which of the following award is the highest achievement of Terence Tao?

Fields Medal

The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Australian Mathematical Society Medal

Onsager Medal

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Question 5: Terence Tao has been described as the world's best mathematician and is therefore nicknamed as

Prince of Mathematics

Father of Modern Science

Mozart of Math

Father of Modern Mathematics

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Question 6: Which of these titles has Terence Tao NOT been awarded?

The Clay Research Award

The Australian Mathematics Society Medal

The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

De Morgan Medal

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Question 7: Which of the following is/are NOT originally proved by Terence Tao?

Green-Tao theorem

Twin Prime Conjecture

Proof of Infinitely Many Primes

Question 8: Terence Tao' best known mathematics work involves

Prime numbers

Infinite series

Fourier series

Diophantine analysis

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Question 9: Terence Tao's focusing areas in mathematics are the following EXCEPT

Harmonic Analysis

Geometric and Arithmetic Combinatorics

Theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces

Compressed Sensing and Algebraic Combinatorics

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Question 10: Terence Tao was offered the opportunity to star in an ad campaign featuring Australian heroes, did he take the offer?

Yes

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