2026 Terence Tao: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	119	14	13	9	8	499	97783

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2021 - Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal For groundbreaking contributions to compressed sensing.
2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2010 - George Pólya Prize
2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2008 - National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award Mathematics
2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2006 - Fields Medal of International Mathematical Union (IMU) For his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory.
2006 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Terence Tao is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. The primary field of study for Tao is Mathematics, with a total of 204 publications. Their research spans multiple subfields including Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology, Algebra and Number Theory, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, and Applied Mathematics.

The main research topics covered in their work include:

Analytic Number Theory Research
Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
Advanced Topology and Set Theory
Mathematical Approximation and Integration
Cellular Automata and Applications
Mathematics and Applications

Significant recent papers authored by Tao include:

"Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values," 2022, Forum of Mathematics Pi
"Quantitative bounds for critically bounded solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations," 2021, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics

Other notable papers in the dataset by related or coauthor researchers published in venues of interest are "THE DE BRUIJN-NEWMAN CONSTANT IS NON-NEGATIVE," 2020, Forum of Mathematics Pi and "Pointwise ergodic theorems for non-conventional bilinear polynomial averages," 2022, Annals of Mathematics.

Tao has collaborated frequently with numerous researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

T. W. Körner
Joni Teräväinen
Rachel Greenfeld

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, notably:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Annals of Mathematics
Journal of the European Mathematical Society
Forum of Mathematics Pi

Books published by Tao include:

"Analysis I" (2022) and "Analysis II" (2022), both with Texts and readings in mathematics
"Fourier Analysis" (2022), published by Cambridge University Press

Throughout their career, Tao has received multiple awards, including:

Fields Medal of International Mathematical Union (IMU), 2006, for contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory
Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, 2021, for groundbreaking contributions to compressed sensing
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
George Pólya Prize, 2010
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award, 2008
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008
Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2007
Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2006
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1999

Best Publications

Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency information

E.J. Candes;J. Romberg;T. Tao

20135
Citations
Decoding by linear programming

E.J. Candes;T. Tao

9164
Citations
Stable signal recovery from incomplete and inaccurate measurements

Emmanuel J. Candès;Justin K. Romberg;Terence Tao

9142
Citations
Near-Optimal Signal Recovery From Random Projections: Universal Encoding Strategies?

E.J. Candes;T. Tao

8817
Citations
The Dantzig selector: Statistical estimation when P is much larger than n

Emmanuel Candes;Terence Tao

4223
Citations
The Power of Convex Relaxation: Near-Optimal Matrix Completion

Emmanuel J Candes;Terence Tao

2641
Citations
Endpoint Strichartz estimates

Markus Aloysius Keel;Terence Tao

2159
Citations
Nonlinear dispersive equations : local and global analysis

Terence Tao

1817
Citations
Topics in Random Matrix Theory

Terence Tao

1284
Citations
The primes contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions

Benjamin Green;Terence Tao

1065
Citations
Additive Combinatorics: Frontmatter

Terence Tao;Van H. Vu

916
Citations
The honeycomb model of _{}(ℂ) tensor products I: Proof of the saturation conjecture

Allen Knutson;Allen Knutson;Terence Tao

816
Citations
Sharp global well-posedness for KdV and modified KdV on ℝ and

J. Colliander;M. Keel;G. Staffilani;G. Staffilani;H. Takaoka;H. Takaoka

806
Citations
Global well-posedness and scattering for the energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in R^3

James Colliander;Markus Keel;Gigliola Staffilani;Hideo Takaoka

784
Citations
An Introduction to Measure Theory

Terence Tao

592
Citations
A SUM-PRODUCT ESTIMATE IN FINITE FIELDS, AND APPLICATIONS

Jean Bourgain;Nets Katz;Terence Tao

591
Citations
Fuglede's conjecture is false in 5 and higher dimensions

Terence Tao

578
Citations
Random matrices: Universality of ESDs and the circular law

Terence Tao;Van H. Vu;Manjunath Krishnapur

504
Citations
Random matrices: Universality of local eigenvalue statistics

Terence Tao;Van H. Vu

504
Citations
ASYMPTOTICS, FREQUENCY MODULATION, AND LOW REGULARITY ILL-POSEDNESS FOR CANONICAL DEFOCUSING EQUATIONS

Michael Christ;James Colliander;Terrence Tao

482
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Green University of Oxford

Van Vu Yale University

James Colliander University of British Columbia

Gigliola Staffilani MIT

Emmanuel J. Candès Stanford University

Monica Visan University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Christ University of California, Berkeley

Andreas Seeger University of Wisconsin–Madison

Vitaly Bergelson The Ohio State University

Igor Rodnianski Princeton University

External Links

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