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Researcher · University of California, Los Angeles · United States

Terence Tao

Terence Tao publishes mostly in Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematics and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, on topics such as Limits and Structures in Graph Theory, Analytic Number Theory Research and Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems.

ORCID 0000-0002-0140-7641 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,469
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,125
of 358,040
Works
215
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
14.5

What does Terence Tao research?

Mathematical Physics: 19.4%Applied Mathematics: 15.9%Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 11.9%Geometry and Topology: 9.4%other fields: 43.4%19%top field
Mathematical Physics19.4%Applied Mathematics15.9%Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics11.9%Geometry and Topology9.4%other fields43.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Mathematical Physics19% of their works
  2. 2Applied Mathematics16% of their works
  3. 3Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics12% of their works
  4. 4Geometry and Topology9% of their works
  5. 5Algebra and Number Theory8% of their works
  6. 6Statistics and Probability5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Terence Tao's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Random Matrix Theory, Graph Limits, Szemerédi's Theorem, Global Well-Posedness, L-Functions, Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation, Primes and Calderón–Zygmund Theory.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Random Matrix Theory302 topics
  2. Graph Limits251 topic
  3. Szemerédi's Theorem251 topic
  4. Global Well-Posedness211 topic
  5. L-Functions211 topic
  6. Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation211 topic
  7. Primes211 topic
  8. Calderón–Zygmund Theory121 topic
  9. Fourier Multiplier Theorems121 topic
  10. Frames121 topic
  11. Model Theory121 topic
  12. Topological Dynamics121 topic
  13. Wavelets121 topic
  14. Combinatorics91 topic
  15. Covariance Matrices91 topic
  16. Eigenvalues91 topic
  17. Permutations91 topic

Where does Terence Tao work?

Terence Tao's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Los Angeles, United States.

How many publications and citations does Terence Tao have?

Science Explorer counts 215 works and 3,127 citations for Terence Tao, ranking #2,469 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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