Terence Tao

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Terence Tao

Traditional Chinese 陶哲軒

Simplified Chinese 陶哲轩

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Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian mathematician. He is a professor

of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His
research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic
combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing and analytic number theory.[4]
Tao was born to ethnic Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Adelaide. Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006 and won
the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014. He is also a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the
author or co-author of over three hundred research papers.[5] He is widely regarded as one of the greatest living
mathematicians and has been referred to as the "Mozart of mathematics".[6][7][8][9][10]

Contents
 1Life and career
o 1.1Family
o 1.2Childhood
 o 1.3Career
o 1.4Recognition
 2Research contributions
o 2.1Dispersive partial differential equations
o 2.2Harmonic analysis
o 2.3Compressed sensing and statistics
o 2.4Random matrices
o 2.5Analytic number theory and arithmetic combinatorics
 3Notable awards
 4Major publications
 5See also
 6References
 7External links
Life and career[edit]
Family[edit]
Tao's parents are first-generation immigrants from Hong Kong to Australia.[11] Tao's father, Billy Tao (Chinese: 陶象
國; pinyin: Táo Xiàngguó), was a Chinese paediatrician who was born in Shanghai and earned his medical degree (MBBS)
from the University of Hong Kong in 1969.[12] Tao's mother, Grace Leong (Chinese: 梁蕙蘭; Jyutping: Loeng4 Wai6-laan4),
was born in Hong Kong; she received a first-class honours degree in astrophysics and mathematics at the University of
Hong Kong.[10] She was a secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics in Hong Kong. [13] Billy and Grace met as
students at the University of Hong Kong.[14] They then emigrated from Hong Kong to Australia in 1972. [11][10]
Tao also has two brothers, who are living in Australia. Both formerly represented the country at the International
Mathematical Olympiad.[15] Tao speaks Cantonese but cannot write Chinese. Tao is married to Laura Tao, a Chinese-
American woman who is an electrical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[10][16] They live with their son and
daughter in Los Angeles, California.[10]

Tao at the age of 10 with mathematician Paul Erdős in 1985

Childhood[edit]
A child prodigy,[17] Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university-level
mathematics courses at the age of 9. He is one of only three children in the history of the Johns Hopkins' Study of
Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just eight years old;
Tao scored a 760.[18][6] Julian Stanley, Director of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, stated that Tao had the
greatest mathematical reasoning ability he had found in years of intensive searching. [19]
Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in
1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal, respectively. Tao remains the youngest winner of each of
the three medals in the Olympiad's history, having won the gold medal at the age of 13 in 1988. [20]
Career[edit]
Tao (second from left) with UCLA undergraduate students in 2021
At age 14, Tao attended the Research Science Institute, a summer program for secondary students. In 1991, he received his
bachelor's and master's degrees at the age of 16 from Flinders University under the direction of Garth Gaudry.[21] In 1992,
he won a Postgraduate Fulbright Scholarship to undertake research in mathematics at Princeton University in the United
States. From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein, receiving
his PhD at the age of 21.[21] In 1996, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1999, when he was
24, he was promoted to full professor at UCLA and remains the youngest person ever appointed to that rank by the
institution.[21]
He is known for his collaborative mindset; by 2006, Tao had worked with over 30 others in his discoveries, [6] reaching 68
co-authors by October 2015.
Tao has had a particularly extensive collaboration with British mathematician Ben J. Green; together they proved
the Green–Tao theorem, which is well-known among both amateur and professional mathematicians. This theorem states
that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers. The New York Times described it this way:[22][23]
In 2004, Dr. Tao, along with Ben Green, a mathematician now at the University of Cambridge in England, solved a
problem related to the Twin Prime Conjecture by looking at prime number progressions—series of numbers equally
spaced. (For example, 3, 7 and 11 constitute a progression of prime numbers with a spacing of 4; the next number in the
sequence, 15, is not prime.) Dr. Tao and Dr. Green proved that it is always possible to find, somewhere in the infinity of
integers, a progression of prime numbers of equal spacing and any length.
Many other results of Tao have received mainstream attention in the scientific press, including:
 his establishment of finite time blowup for a modification of the famous Navier–Stokes existence and
smoothness Millennium Problem[24]
 his 2015 resolution of the Erdős discrepancy problem, which used entropy estimates within analytic number
theory[25]
 his 2019 progress on the Collatz conjecture, in which he proved the probabilistic claim that almost all Collatz orbits
attain almost bounded values.[26]
Tao has also resolved or made progress on a number of conjectures. In 2012, Green and Tao announced proofs of the
conjectured "orchard-planting problem," which asks for the maximum number of lines through exactly 3 points in a set of
n points in the plane, not all on a line. In 2018, with Brad Rodgers, Tao improved the best available lower bound for the de
Bruijn–Newman constant.[27] In 2020, Tao proved Sendov's conjecture for large .[28]
Recognition[edit]
British mathematician and Fields medalist Timothy Gowers remarked on Tao's breadth of knowledge: [29]
Tao's mathematical knowledge has an extraordinary combination of breadth and depth: he can write confidently and
authoritatively on topics as diverse as partial differential equations, analytic number theory, the geometry of 3-manifolds,
nonstandard analysis, group theory, model theory, quantum mechanics, probability, ergodic theory, combinatorics,
harmonic analysis, image processing, functional analysis, and many others. Some of these are areas to which he has made
fundamental contributions. Others are areas that he appears to understand at the deep intuitive level of an expert despite
officially not working in those areas. How he does all this, as well as writing papers and books at a prodigious rate, is a
complete mystery. It has been said that David Hilbert was the last person to know all of mathematics, but it is not easy to
find gaps in Tao's knowledge, and if you do then you may well find that the gaps have been filled a year later.
An article by New Scientist[30] writes of his ability:
Such is Tao's reputation that mathematicians now compete to interest him in their problems, and he is becoming a kind of
Mr Fix-it for frustrated researchers. "If you're stuck on a problem, then one way out is to interest Terence Tao,"
says Charles Fefferman [professor of mathematics at Princeton University].[31]
Tao has won numerous mathematician honours and awards over the years. [32] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society,
the Australian Academy of Science (Corresponding Member), the National Academy of Sciences (Foreign member),
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society,[33] and the American Mathematical
Society.[34] In 2006 he received the Fields Medal; he was the first Australian, the first UCLA faculty member, and one of
the youngest mathematicians to receive the award. [31][35] He was also awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. He has been
featured in The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Popular Science, and many other media outlets.[36] In 2014, Tao
received a CTY Distinguished Alumni Honor from Johns Hopkins Center for Gifted and Talented Youth in front of 979
attendees in 8th and 9th grade that are in the same program from which Tao graduated. In 2021, President Joe
Biden announced Tao had been selected as one of 30 members of his President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology, a body bringing together America's most distinguished leaders in science and technology. [37] In 2021, Tao was
awarded the Riemann Prize Week as recipient of the inaugural Riemann Prize 2019 by the Riemann International School
of Mathematics at the University of Insubria.[38] Tao was a finalist to become Australian of the Year in 2007.[39]
As of 2022, Tao has published over three hundred articles, along with sixteen books. [40] He has an Erdős number of 2.
[41]
 He is a highly cited researcher.[42][43]
Research contributions[edit]
Dispersive partial differential equations[edit]
From 2001 to 2010, Tao was part of a well-known collaboration with James Colliander, Markus Keel, Gigliola Staffilani,
and Hideo Takaoka. They found a number of novel results, many to do with the well-posedness of weak solutions,
for Schrödinger equations, KdV equations, and KdV-type equations.[C+03]
Michael Christ, Colliander, and Tao developed methods of Carlos Kenig, Gustavo Ponce, and Luis Vega to establish ill-
posedness of certain Schrödinger and KdV equations for Sobolev data of sufficiently low exponents. [CCT03][44] In many cases
these results were sharp enough to perfectly complement well-posedness results for sufficiently large exponents as due to
Bourgain, Colliander−Keel−Staffilani−Takaoka−Tao, and others. Further such notable results for Schrödinger equations
were found by Tao in collaboration with Ioan Bejenaru. [BT06]
A particularly notable result of the Colliander−Keel−Staffilani−Takaoka−Tao collaboration established the long-time
existence and scattering theory of a power-law Schrödinger equation in three dimensions. [C+08] Their methods, which made
use of the scale-invariance of the simple power law, were extended by Tao in collaboration with Monica Vișan and Xiaoyi
Zhang to deal with nonlinearities in which the scale-invariance is broken.[TVZ07] Rowan Killip, Tao, and Vișan later made
notable progress on the two-dimensional problem in radial symmetry. [KTV09]
A technical tour de force by Tao in 2001 considered the wave maps equation with two-dimensional domain and spherical
range.[T01a] He built upon earlier innovations of Daniel Tataru, who considered wave maps valued in Minkowski space.
[45]
 Tao proved the global well-posedness of solutions with sufficiently small initial data. The fundamental difficulty is that
Tao considers smallness relative to the critical Sobolev norm, which typically requires sophisticated techniques. Tao later
adapted some of his work on wave maps to the setting of the Benjamin–Ono equation; Alexandru Ionescu and Kenig later
obtained improved results with Tao's methods.[T04a][46]
In 2016, Tao constructed a variant of the Navier–Stokes equations which possess solutions exhibiting irregular behavior in
finite time.[T16] Due to structural similarities between Tao's system and the Navier–Stokes equations themselves, it follows
that any positive resolution of the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem must take into account the specific
nonlinear structure of the equations. In particular, certain previously-proposed resolutions of the problem could not be
legitimate.[47] Tao speculated that the Navier–Stokes equations might be able to simulate a Turing complete system, and
that as a consequence it might be possible to (negatively) resolve the existence and smoothness problem using a
modification of his results.[6][24] However, such results remain (as of 2022) conjectural.
Harmonic analysis[edit]
Bent Fuglede introduced the Fuglede conjecture in the 1970s, positing a tile-based characterisation of those Euclidean
domains for which a Fourier ensemble provides a basis of L2.[48] Tao resolved the conjecture in the negative for dimensions
larger than 5, based upon the construction of an elementary counterexample to an analogous problem in the setting
of finite groups.[T04b]
With Camil Muscalu and Christoph Thiele, Tao considered certain multilinear singular integral operators with the
multiplier allowed to degenerate on a hyperplane, identifying conditions which ensure operator continuity relative
to Lp spaces.[MTT02] This unified and extended earlier notable results of Ronald Coifman, Carlos Kenig, Michael Lacey, Yves
Meyer, Elias Stein, and Thiele, among others.[49][50][51][52][53][54] Similar problems were analyzed by Tao in 2001 in the context
of Bourgain spaces, rather than the usual Lp spaces.[T01b] Such estimates are used in establishing well-posedness results for
dispersive partial differential equations, following famous earlier work of Jean Bourgain, Kenig, Gustavo Ponce, and Luis
Vega, among others.[55][56]
A number of Tao's results deal with "restriction" phenomena in Fourier analysis, which have been widely studied since
seminal articles of Charles Fefferman, Robert Strichartz, and Peter Tomas in the 1970s.[57][58][59] Here one studies the
operation which restricts input functions on Euclidean space to a submanifold and outputs the product of the Fourier
transforms of the corresponding measures. It is of major interest to identify exponents such that this operation is
continuous relative to Lp spaces. Such multilinear problems originated in the 1990s, including in notable work of Jean
Bourgain, Sergiu Klainerman, and Matei Machedon.[60][61][62] In collaboration with Ana Vargas and Luis Vega, Tao made
some foundational contributions to the study of the bilinear restriction problem, establishing new exponents and drawing
connections to the linear restriction problem. They also found analogous results for the bilinear Kakeya problem which is
based upon the X-ray transform instead of the Fourier transform.[TVV98] In 2003, Tao adapted ideas developed by Thomas
Wolff for bilinear restriction to conical sets into the setting of restriction to quadratic hypersurfaces. [T03][63] The multilinear
setting for these problems was further developed by Tao in collaboration with Jonathan Bennett and Anthony Carbery;
their work was extensively used by Bourgain and Larry Guth in deriving estimates for general oscillatory integral
operators.[BCT06][64]
Compressed sensing and statistics[edit]
In collaboration with Emmanuel Candes and Justin Romberg, Tao has made notable contributions to the field
of compressed sensing. In mathematical terms, most of their results identify settings in which a convex optimisation
problem correctly computes the solution of an optimisation problem which seems to lack a computationally tractable
structure. These problems are of the nature of finding the solution of an underdetermined linear system with the minimal
possible number of nonzero entries, referred to as "sparsity". Around the same time, David Donoho considered similar
problems from the alternative perspective of high-dimensional geometry. [65]
Motivated by striking numerical experiments, Candes, Romberg, and Tao first studied the case where the matrix is given
by the discrete Fourier transform.[CRT06a] Candes and Tao abstracted the problem and introduced the notion of a "restricted
linear isometry," which is a matrix that is quantitatively close to an isometry when restricted to certain subspaces.
[CT05]
 They showed that it is sufficient for either exact or optimally approximate recovery of sufficiently sparse solutions.
Their proofs, which involved the theory of convex duality, were markedly simplified in collaboration with Romberg, to use
only linear algebra and elementary ideas of harmonic analysis. [CRT06b] These ideas and results were later improved by
Candes.[66] Candes and Tao also considered relaxations of the sparsity condition, such as power-law decay of coefficients.
[CT06]
 They complemented these results by drawing on a large corpus of past results in random matrix theory to show that,
according to the Gaussian ensemble, a large number of matrices satisfy the restricted isometry property. [CT06]
In 2009, Candes and Benjamin Recht considered an analogous problem for recovering a matrix from knowledge of only a
few of its entries and the information that the matrix is of low rank. [67] They formulated the problem in terms of convex
optimisation, studying minimisation of the nuclear norm. Candes and Tao, in 2010, developed further results and
techniques for the same problem.[CT10] Improved results were later found by Recht.[68] Similar problems and results have
also been considered by a number of other authors.[69][70][71][72][73]
In 2007, Candes and Tao introduced a novel statistical estimator for linear regression, which they called the "Dantzig
selector." They proved a number of results on its success as an estimator and model selector, roughly in parallel to their
earlier work on compressed sensing.[CT07] A number of other authors have since studied the Dantzig selector, comparing it
to similar objects such as the statistical lasso introduced in the 1990s.[74] Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome H.
Friedman conclude that it is "somewhat unsatisfactory" in a number of cases. [75] Nonetheless it remains of significant
interest in the statistical literature.
Random matrices[edit]
In the 1950s, Eugene Wigner initiated the study of random matrices and their eigenvalues.[76][77] Wigner studied the case
of hermitian and symmetric matrices, proving a "semicircle law" for their eigenvalues. In 2010, Tao and Van Vu made a
major contribution to the study of non-symmetric random matrices. They showed that if n is large and the entries of
a n × n matrix A are selected randomly according to any fixed probability distribution of average 0 and standard
deviation 1, then the eigenvalues of A will tend to be uniformly scattered across the disk of radius n1/2 around the origin;
this can be made precise using the language of measure theory.[TV10] This gave a proof of the long-conjectured circular law,
which had previously been proved in weaker formulations by many other authors. In Tao and Vu's formulation, the
circular law becomes an immediate consequence of a "universality principle" stating that the distribution of the
eigenvalues can depend only on the average and standard deviation of the given component-by-component probability
distribution, thereby providing a reduction of the general circular law to a calculation for specially-chosen probability
distributions.
In 2011, Tao and Vu established a "four moment theorem", which applies to random hermitian matrices whose
components are independently distributed, each with average 0 and standard deviation 1, and which are exponentially
unlikely to be large (as for a Gaussian distribution). If one considers two such random matrices which agree on the average
value of any quadratic polynomial in the diagonal entries and on the average value of any quartic polynomial in the off-
diagonal entries, then Tao and Vu show that the expected value of a large number of functions of the eigenvalues will also
coincide, up to an error which is uniformly controllable by the size of the matrix and which becomes arbitrarily small as
the size of the matrix increases.[TV11] Similar results were obtained around the same time by László Erdös, Horng-Tzer Yau,
and Jun Yin.[78][79]
Analytic number theory and arithmetic combinatorics[edit]
In 2004, Tao, together with Jean Bourgain and Nets Katz, studied the additive and multiplicative structure of subsets
of finite fields of prime order.[BKT04] It is well known that there are no nontrivial subrings of such a field. Bourgain, Katz,
and Tao provided a quantitative formulation of this fact, showing that for any subset of such a field, the number of sums
and products of elements of the subset must be quantitatively large, as compared to the size of the field and the size of the
subset itself. Improvements of their result were later given by Bourgain, Alexey Glibichuk, and Sergei Konyagin.[80][81]
Tao and Ben Green proved the existence of arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions in the prime numbers; this result is
generally referred to as the Green–Tao theorem, and is among Tao's most well-known results.[GT08] The source of Green
and Tao's arithmetic progressions is Endre Szemerédi's seminal 1975 theorem on existence of arithmetic progressions in
certain sets of integers. Green and Tao showed that one can use a "transference principle" to extend the validity of
Szemerédi's theorem to further sets of integers. The Green–Tao theorem then arises as a special case, although it is not
trivial to show that the prime numbers satisfy the conditions of Green and Tao's extension of the Szemerédi theorem.
In 2010, Green and Tao gave a multilinear extension of Dirichlet's celebrated theorem on arithmetic progressions. Given
a k × n matrix A and a k × 1 matrix v whose components are all integers, Green and Tao give conditions on when there
exist infinitely many n × 1 matrices x such that all components of Ax + v are prime numbers.[GT10] The proof of Green and
Tao was incomplete, as it was conditioned upon unproven conjectures. Those conjectures were proved in later work of
Green, Tao, and Tamar Ziegler.[GTZ12]
Notable awards[edit]
 1992 – Fulbright Scholarship
 1999 – Packard Fellowship
 2000 – Salem Prize for:[82]
"his work in Lp harmonic analysis and on related questions in geometric measure theory and partial differential
equations."
 2002 – Bôcher Memorial Prize for:
Global regularity of wave maps I. Small critical Sobolev norm in high dimensions. Internat. Math. Res. Notices (2001),
no. 6, 299-328.
Global regularity of wave maps II. Small energy in two dimensions. Comm. Math. Phys. 2244 (2001), no. 2, 443-544.
in addition to "his remarkable series of papers, written in collaboration with J. Colliander, M. Keel, G. Staffilani, and H.
Takaoka, on global regularity in optimal Sobolev spaces for KdV and other equations, as well as his many deep
contributions to Strichartz and bilinear estimates."
 2003 – Clay Research Award for:[83]
his restriction theorems in Fourier analysis, his work on wave maps, his global existence theorems for KdV-type equations,
and for his solution with Allen Knutson of Horn's conjecture
 2005 – Australian Mathematical Society Medal
 2005 – Ostrowski Prize (with Ben Green) for:
"their exceptional achievements in the area of analytic and combinatorial number theory"
  2005 – Levi L.Conant Prize (with Allen Knutson) for:
their expository article "Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices" (Notices of the AMS. 48 (2001), 175–186.)
 2006 – Fields Medal for:
"his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory"
 2006 – MacArthur Award
 2006 – SASTRA Ramanujan Prize[84]
 2006 – Sloan Fellowship
 2007 – Fellow of the Royal Society[85]
 2008 – Alan T. Waterman Award for:[86]
"his surprising and original contributions to many fields of mathematics, including number theory, differential equations,
algebra, and harmonic analysis"
 2008 – Onsager Medal[87] for:
"his combination of mathematical depth, width and volume in a manner unprecedented in contemporary mathematics".
His Lars Onsager lecture was entitled "Structure and randomness in the prime numbers" at NTNU, Norway.[88]
 2009 – Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [89]
 2010 – King Faisal International Prize
 2010 – Nemmers Prize in Mathematics[90]
 2010 – Polya Prize (with Emmanuel Candès)
 2012 – Crafoord Prize[91][92]
 2012 – Simons Investigator[93]
 2014 – Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
"For numerous breakthrough contributions to harmonic analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations and
analytic number theory."
 2014 – Royal Medal
 2015 – PROSE award in the category of "Mathematics" for:[94]
"Hilbert's Fifth Problem and Related Topics" ISBN 978-1-4704-1564-8
 2019 – Riemann Prize[95]
 2020 – Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research,[96] with Emmanuel Candès, for their work
on compressed sensing
 2020 – Bolyai Prize[97]
 2021 – IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal[98]
 2021 – USIA Award
 2022 – Education & Research award finalist
 2022 - Global Australian of the Year (Advance Global Australians; Advance.org) [99][100]
 2022 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
Major publications[edit]
Textbooks
 — (2006). Solving mathematical problems. A personal perspective (Second edition of 1992 original ed.).
Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920560-8. MR 2265113. Zbl 1098.00006.
 — (2006). Nonlinear dispersive equations. Local and global analysis. CBMS Regional Conference Series in
Mathematics. Vol. 106. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/cbms/106. ISBN 0-8218-
4143-2. MR 2233925. Zbl 1106.35001.
 —; Vu, Van H. (2006). Additive combinatorics. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Vol. 105.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511755149. ISBN 978-0-521-85386-
6. MR 2289012. Zbl 1127.11002.[101][102]
 — (2008). Structure and randomness. Pages from year one of a mathematical blog. Providence, RI: American
Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/mbk/059. ISBN 978-0-8218-4695-7. MR 2459552. Zbl 1245.00024.
 — (2009). Poincaré's legacies, pages from year two of a mathematical blog. Part I. Providence, RI: American
Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/mbk/066. ISBN 978-0-8218-4883-8. MR 2523047. Zbl 1171.00003.
 — (2009). Poincaré's legacies, pages from year two of a mathematical blog. Part II. Providence, RI: American
Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/mbk/067. ISBN 978-0-8218-4885-2. MR 2541289. Zbl 1175.00010.
 — (2010). An epsilon of room, I: real analysis. Pages from year three of a mathematical blog (PDF). Graduate
Studies in Mathematics. Vol. 117. Providence, RI: American Mathematical
Society. doi:10.1090/gsm/117. ISBN 978-0-8218-5278-1. MR 2760403. Zbl 1216.46002.[103]
 — (2010). An epsilon of room, II. Pages from year three of a mathematical blog (PDF). Providence, RI: American
Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/mbk/077. ISBN 978-0-8218-5280-4. MR 2780010. Zbl 1218.00001.
 — (2011). An introduction to measure theory (PDF). Graduate Studies in Mathematics. Vol. 126. Providence,
RI: American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/gsm/126. ISBN 978-0-8218-6919-
2. MR 2827917. Zbl 1231.28001.[104]
 — (2012). Topics in random matrix theory (PDF). Graduate Studies in Mathematics. Vol. 132. Providence,
RI: American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/gsm/132. ISBN 978-0-8218-7430-
1. MR 2906465. Zbl 1256.15020.
 — (2012). Higher order Fourier analysis (PDF). Graduate Studies in Mathematics. Vol. 142. Providence,
RI: American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/gsm/142. ISBN 978-0-8218-8986-
2. MR 2931680. Zbl 1277.11010.
 — (2013). Compactness and contradiction (PDF). Providence, RI: American Mathematical
Society. doi:10.1090/mbk/081. ISBN 978-0-8218-9492-7. MR 3026767. Zbl 1276.00007.
  — (2014). Analysis. I. Texts and Readings in Mathematics. Vol. 37 (Third edition of 2006 original ed.). New
Delhi: Hindustan Book Agency. ISBN 978-93-80250-64-9. MR 3309891. Zbl 1300.26002.
 — (2014). Analysis. II. Texts and Readings in Mathematics. Vol. 38 (Third edition of 2006 original ed.). New
Delhi: Hindustan Book Agency. ISBN 978-93-80250-65-6. MR 3310023. Zbl 1300.26003.
 — (2014). Hilbert's fifth problem and related topics. Graduate Studies in Mathematics. Vol. 153. Providence,
RI: American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/gsm/153. ISBN 978-1-4704-1564-
8. MR 3237440. Zbl 1298.22001.
 — (2015). Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type. Graduate Studies in Mathematics. Vol. 164. Providence,
RI: American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/gsm/164. ISBN 978-1-4704-2196-
0. MR 3309986. Zbl 1336.20015.[105]
Research articles. Tao is the author of over 300 articles. The following, among the most cited, are surveyed above.