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As a young mathematician, Tao Zhexuan's talent and current achievements are undoubtedly admired by many people, and he has indeed made great contributions to the development of mathematics in the world. We can combine Tao Zhexuan's growing experience and important academic achievements to understand him and his math work, and we can also have our own evaluation on him.

Overview of life experience

Tao Zhexuan was born in Australia. He is a mathematician in China, who teaches in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. So far, he is the only Chinese-Australian professor of mathematics who won the Fields Prize, and the second Chinese to win this honor after Qiu Chengtong. He was also elected as an academician of many countries or foreign countries.

When I was two years old, my parents discovered Tao Zhexuan's early wisdom in mathematics. When he was in kindergarten, he taught himself almost all elementary school mathematics courses under the guidance of his mother. During this period, parents began to read books on gifted education and joined the South Australian Association of Gifted Children. Tao Zhexuan also met other gifted children.

At the age of five, his parents sent him to a public school two miles away from home, which promised to provide Tao Zhexuan with a flexible education plan. As soon as he entered school, Tao Zhexuan entered the second grade, but his math class was in the fifth grade.

Driven by strong interest, Tao Zhexuan, 7, began to teach himself calculus. The headmaster of the primary school asked him to go to other schools to listen to middle school math classes every day. Soon, he published his first book, which was about calculating the perfect number with the Basic program.

At the age of eight and a half, Tao Zhexuan entered middle school and studied college mathematics and physics in his spare time. During this period, he began to make a sensation frequently by virtue of his excellent test results in mathematics competitions. I took the math part of SAT (American College Entrance Examination) and got a high score of 760 (full score 100, 800).

10 years old, 1 1 year old, 12 years old participated in the international mathematical olympiad and won the bronze medal, silver medal and gold medal respectively. Before he 13 years old, he won the gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad, and this record has been kept by him to this day.

At the age of 65,438+04, Tao Zhexuan officially entered the Flinders University where he attended middle school. At the age of 65,438+06, he received an honorary degree in science from the school and a master's degree only one year later.

/kloc-at the age of 0/7, Tao Zhexuan came to the United States and began to climb the peak of mathematics. He studied under the Wolf Prize winner Elias at Princeton University. Elias Stein, 2 1 year old, received his doctorate.

At the age of 24, he was hired as a full professor by UCLA and became the youngest full professor in UCLA history.

In the summer of 2006, he won the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award and the Nobel Prize "Fields" in the field of mathematics.

At the end of 2006, Tao Zhexuan started to blog on wordpress. Here, he wrote down all aspects of his scientific research and directly posted the thinking results of some papers that he felt were not weighty enough to share with his peers.

In 2008, he won the Allen T. wortmann Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

From June 5th to February, 2009, I came to China as an interviewer of the second "Qiu Chengtong Middle School Mathematics Award". In 20 15, he won the scientific breakthrough award-mathematical breakthrough award.

Mathematical research work

During his research career, Tao Zhexuan was recognized as a young master in nearly 65,438+00 important mathematical research fields, such as harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorial mathematics, analytic number theory and arithmetic number theory. These directions are extremely popular growing points in the development of mathematics. In addition, his research field also involves engineering, and he has made a breakthrough in the compression sensing principle of cameras (the application of harmonic analysis in practice).

Another famous achievement of Tao Zhexuan is his cooperation with Ben? Green cooperated with prime number sequence to solve a conjecture related to "twin prime numbers" put forward by Euclid: the arithmetic difference between some prime number sequences, such as 3, 7, 1 1, is 4; The next number in the series 15 is not a prime number. This 2300-year mathematical unsolved case attracted his interest. He and his companions even proved that such arithmetic progression segments can even be found in infinite prime numbers. This discovery was named "Green-Tao Theorem". This should be regarded as Tao Zhexuan's best mathematical achievement so far. After Professor Zhang gave the proof of the weakening of twin prime numbers, the professor made a rapid improvement on this proof.

Tao Zhexuan also attaches great importance to the popularization of mathematics education. He has published many books on mathematics, such as Tao Zhexuan's Practical Analysis and Tao Zhexuan teaches you to learn mathematics.

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From the above-mentioned growth experience of Tao Zhexuan and his work in mathematics, we can see that Tao Zhexuan's talent in mathematics is not high, and his research results are world-class, so he is also called "Mozart in mathematics". Through his story, we can also find that talent is important for a person's growth, but it is more important to be interested. Besides, a good education is indispensable.

Wu Wenjun, a famous mathematician in China, commented: "Tao Zhexuan is a great man. Although I have never met him, I often hear people praise him in many forums and mention his achievements in many aspects. "

When Tao Zhexuan won the Fields Prize, the organizing committee of the Fields Prize wrote the awarding words: "Tao Zhexuan is a top problem solver ... His interests span many fields of mathematics, including harmonic analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations and combinatorial theory."

Generally speaking, Tao Zhexuan's keen interest in learning and the spirit of constantly climbing the scientific peak in the process of growing up are worth learning. He is a truly talented and outstanding mathematician, and his work is undoubtedly world-class.

The above is my personal evaluation of Tao Zhexuan's growth and work. I hope my sharing can help you.

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