The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Australia
This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 1 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 51st most number of Mathematicians behind Serbia and Morocco.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Australian Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Terence Tao (1975 - )
With an HPI of 50.49, Terence Tao is the most famous Australian Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 42 different languages on wikipedia.
Terence Chi-Shen Tao (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. Tao was born to 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. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as mathematicians born between 1975 and 1975. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living mathematicians include Terence Tao.
