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Terence Tao is often referred to by what musical nickname?

  • Beethoven of maths

  • Bach of maths

  • Mozart of maths

  • Chopin of maths

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Dubbed the "Mozart of maths", Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician who has made significant contributions to various fields, including harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, analytic number theory, and random matrix theory. He has received numerous awards for his work and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and influential mathematicians of his generation.
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