In fact, it was the second time in its short history Overdeck, also a backer of the museum, had won the competition. He was beaten in the final round by a secretive Wall Street hedge fund manager named John Overdeck, who solved a problem involving infinite sequences and prime factorization.
A professor at UCLA, Tao has won the Fields Medal, often described as the Nobel Prize of math, and the $3 million Breakthrough Prize. In the end there was little surprise that the finals featured Terence Tao, 40, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of this generation. The annual event was hosted by the Museum of Mathematics, which was underwritten in 2012 by Google and the world's richest quantitative Wall Street traders, including Renaissance Technologies' billionaire founder, James Simons.
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LAST YEAR SOME OF THE nation's greatest math minds gathered at Manhattan's elegant Tribeca Rooftop for stunning views, fancy food and wine-and a series of complex equations to determine who among them would be king of the geeks.
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