Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has ...

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AI is now helping produce research-level mathematics, but experts say verifying proofs not generating them is becoming the ...

Terence Tao was reading and counting by age 2, studying university-level math by 9, and finished a Princeton PhD by 20. He went on to win the Fields Medal, become tenured at UCLA at 24, help prove ...

Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered to be the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChatGPT’s o1 reasoning model to a “mediocre, but not completely incompetent” graduate ...

On Alumni Day last month, Princeton awarded the James Madison Medal, the highest distinction for graduate alumni, to Terence Tao GS ’96. Tao made University history when he earned his Ph.D. in ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...