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Watch: Four Minutes With Terence Tao

We ask the 2006 Fields Medalist to talk about his love of mathematics, his current interests and his favorite planet

Terence Tao is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has won several awards, including the 2006 Fields Medal and the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He was named a Simons Investigator in Mathematics in 2012.