Fields Medal is the highest award in Math field. It is considered the Nobel Prize in math. Terence Tao is one of the youngest to receive this prize – 31 year old.

In August 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, he became one of the youngest, the first Australian, and the first UCLA faculty member ever to be awarded a Fields Medal.[15][16] An article by New Scientist[17] writes of his ability:

“ Such is Tao’s reputation that mathematicians now compete to interest him in their problems, and he is becoming a kind of Mr Fix-it for frustrated researchers. “If you’re stuck on a problem, then one way out is to interest Terence Tao,” says Charles Fefferman [professor of mathematics at Princeton University].
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