The books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe. Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by ...

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 ...

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 ...

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Kevin Gover, Class of 1978, under secretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian, and Terence Tao, a 1996 graduate alumnus, ...

Crowds don’t usually gather around mathematicians — but this story is different. From teaching himself to read at age two to winning the Nobel Prize of mathematics, Terence Tao’s life defies ...