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  2. Terence Tao - Wikipedia

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    Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician, Fields medalist, and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences.

  3. Monica Vișan - Wikipedia

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    She became a student of Terence Tao at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she completed her doctorate in 2006. Her dissertation was The Defocusing Energy-Critical Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation in Dimensions Five and Higher. [1] [2]

  4. List of people by Erdős number - Wikipedia

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    Erdős in 1992. Paul Erdős (1913–1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He considered mathematics to be a social activity and often collaborated on his papers, having 511 joint authors, many of whom also have their own collaborators.

  5. Terence McKenna - Wikipedia

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    Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances; [5] [32] [43] for example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, [26] [55] ayahuasca, and DMT, [6] which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic ...

  6. Akshay Venkatesh - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, he was awarded the Fields Medal, [5] [26] commonly described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, [27] becoming the second Australian (after Terence Tao) [7] and the second person of Indian descent (after Manjul Bhargava) [8] to be so honoured. The short citation for the medal declared that Venkatesh was being honoured for "his synthesis ...

  7. Paul Erdős - Wikipedia

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    Erdős influenced many young mathematicians. In this 1985 photo taken at the University of Adelaide, Erdős explains a problem to Terence Tao—who was 10 years old at the time. Tao received the Fields Medal in 2006, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.

  8. Peter Scholze - Wikipedia

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    Peter Scholze (German pronunciation: [ˈpeːtɐ ˈʃɔltsə] ⓘ; born 11 December 1987 [2]) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry.He has been a professor at the University of Bonn since 2012 and director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics since 2018.

  9. List of Asian Americans - Wikipedia

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    He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, a Christian church he and his wife started in 1994. Bruce Reyes-Chow, first American-born Asian American to be elected moderator of the 2.2-million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) in 2008.