Professor of mathematics, UCLA
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Active researcher; 2006 Fields Medalist
A $1 million prize problem in fluid dynamics has resisted proof for over two decades. Terence Tao's 2014 construction shows why: he built an averaged version of the Navier-Stokes equations that blows up in finite time, even though it conserves energy exactly like the real equations.
Updated 5 days ago
Actively coordinating AI-assisted mathematics research through erdosproblems.com
For the first time, AI systems are independently solving mathematical problems that stumped human researchers for decades. Since Christmas 2025, 15 legendary Erdős problems have moved from 'open' to 'solved'—11 by AI, including the first on January 6, 2026, from OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro and Harmonic's Aristotle theorem prover.
Updated May 29
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