Published by The Author, [Bellevue Heights], 1992
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. [Bellevue Heights], The Author, August 1992. Quarto, [x], 92 leaves of processed typescript (printed rectos only) plus a full page of errata mounted on the front pastedown. Blue binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; tiny bump to the top edge of the front cover; a near-fine copy. The 'Statement of Originality' (page [iv]) is signed by Terence Tao. A number of errata have been corrected manually (ink over correction fluid), presumably by the author. Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (born on 17 July 1975 to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Adelaide, South Australia) 'is an Australian-American mathematician, Fields medalist, and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing and analytic number theory. Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006 and won the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014, and is a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians' (Wikipedia). Terence Tao, B.Sc. (Hons) submitted this thesis for his Degree of Master of Science in August 1992, a month after his seventeenth birthday. Signed.