Tao established the blog in February 2007 as a way to facilitate updates on his faculty home page.

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He was thrilled when members of the engineering faculty mentored Page and Brin and later became Google investors, consultants, and shareholders.

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Tao, a math celebrity of sorts, has a page-long list of rules on his faculty Web site prescribing how he likes to be contacted.

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