Terence Tao
Type: Person
As of November 2026, Terence Tao has been mentioned in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts, first heard Dec 2025 on Lenny's Podcast. Mentioned in the context of AI development and mathematical community.
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory. Among his best-known results is the Green–Tao theorem, proved with Ben Green, which states that the prime numbers contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.
| Mentioned in | 2 episodes on 2 podcasts (as of November 2026) |
|---|---|
| First heard | Dec 2025 on Lenny's Podcast |
| Role | Mathematician |
| Affiliation | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Field | Mathematics |
How do different shows talk about Terence Tao?
2 shows discussed Terence Tao in these episodes.
- The Diary Of A CEO — 1 episode
- Lenny's Podcast — 1 episode
Who talks about Terence Tao on podcasts?
Terence Tao came up; the most recent mention was Oct 2026 on The Diary Of A CEO.
What is Terence Tao mentioned alongside?
Terence Tao is most often mentioned alongside Green-Tao theorem, Grant Sanderson and Jordan Ellenberg.
Worked with: Green-Tao theorem, Grant Sanderson, Jordan Ellenberg
Affiliated with: Fields Medal, Breakthrough Prize, Princeton, Navier-Stokes equations, wave maps equation, Collatz Conjecture
Affiliated with: Green-Tao theorem, Australia
Mentioned together: OpenAI, system prompting, dark patterns, Ted Chiang, Sora, IDC, Whisper Flow, Superhuman, Warp, Granola