Now, in a bid to take on research institutes abroad, it offers an award that it hopes will someday rival the Fields Medal.

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In 1958 he was awarded the Fields medal, named after J.

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Terence Tao, a University of California, Los Angeles mathematician and winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, has turned his blog into an online graduate math seminar open to the general public.

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D. from Princeton at 20 and in 2000 became the youngest faculty member to be appointed a full professor at UCLA. In 2006 he won both the Fields Medal, a sort of Nobel Prize for young mathematicians, and a MacArthur grant.

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Retained Isle of Wight firefighter Neil Cole and Jacqueline Rowley, from Eastleigh Friends of People with a Learning Disability, receive the British Empire Medal for work in their fields.

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