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We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons. Terence Tao b. Born in Adelaide into an exceptionally high-achieving family, Tao showed prodigious ability in mathematics from an early age, attending Flinders University for tuition from the age of nine.

Before turning 13 he became the youngest person ever to win the international Mathematical Olympiad Gold Medal. After completing his master's degree at Flinders in he went to Princeton, where he gained his doctorate in Since he has been a full professor in the mathematics department at UCLA, the youngest person ever to hold such a position.

Tao has won a plethora of international awards for mathematics including the Australian Mathematical Society Medal in and the Fields Prize, the preeminent award in the field, in Terence Tao age 31 in On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves.

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