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Australia’s Terry Tao has been named one of five winners of the inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, a $US3 million ($3.2m) award bankrolled by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner.
The Nobel prizes, which are not open to mathematicians, offer a paltry $1.3m.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation said Professor Tao had been awarded for “numerous breakthrough contributions to harmonic analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations and analytic number theory”.
But Tao, a former child prodigy who competed in the International Mathematical Olympiad at the age of 10 and became the youngest-ever professor at the University of California, reportedly tried to talk his way out of his award.
“I don’t feel like I’ve done enough yet,” he told Scientific American .
Other inaugural recipients are Simon Donaldson, of Stony Brook University in New York and Imperial College London; Maxim Kontsevich of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France; Jacob Lurie of Harvard University; and Richard Taylor of the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey.
Australia’s Terry Tao has been named one of five winners of the inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, a $US3 million ($3.2m) award bankrolled by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner.
The Nobel prizes, which are not open to mathematicians, offer a paltry $1.3m.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation said Professor Tao had been awarded for “numerous breakthrough contributions to harmonic analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations and analytic number theory”.
But Tao, a former child prodigy who competed in the International Mathematical Olympiad at the age of 10 and became the youngest-ever professor at the University of California, reportedly tried to talk his way out of his award.
“I don’t feel like I’ve done enough yet,” he told Scientific American .
Other inaugural recipients are Simon Donaldson, of Stony Brook University in New York and Imperial College London; Maxim Kontsevich of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France; Jacob Lurie of Harvard University; and Richard Taylor of the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey.
