We ask the 2006 Fields Medalist to talk about his love of mathematics, his current interests and his favorite planet. More details: www.simonsfoundation.org/2018...
"I started liking mathematics when I decided to calculate the proper trajectory to escape my mothers birthing canal. I was feet first and needed to realign my body, allowing for safe exit". Tao is the man lol.
@@mirkx7382 what do you mean fragile? Physical state of someone's body, as long as the person is living a healthy lifestyle, doesn't matter in today's world. Intellectuality is the real power.
Tao is a very good communicator. Modest, fluent, responsive, considered, honest, and humorous. Very good person, a great scholar and a gentleman to the core.
@@SalesforceUSA I had him for second year complex analysis, and he was mumble grumbling the whole lecture basically talking to himself. So yeah, not the best communicator as of 20 years ago anyway.
Host: "If you were not a mathematician, what would you have been? Terrance: I would probably be the number 5. It's a nice prime number, useful to many things.
@@factsbykidd4765 But he wasn’t forced into it, he just had the capabilities to do it and he enjoyed learning and math. Not a normal life, but the key is that his parents let him do what he wanted instead of forcing him down a path.
When he says "it's only after grad school that I realized you can direct your own research", you should note that he went to university when he was a kid...
@Tyler yeah, I finished my engineering degree in 4 years and so did most of my peers but I know plenty of people who took an extra semester or even year. A few of my friends are still finishing their degrees for various reasons, and we’re all 23-24 years old now. I even know a few people who graduated in 3 years. Everyone takes things at their own pace, it’s nothing to be ashamed of
I was just shocked by knowing the numbers of discoveries he made in maths field...... I too am a maths lover and is very much inspired by him........ He is just a giant mathematician in this era.....
@@Enthalpy-- ?????? It isnt a red herring, your point was literally that maths are useless without science even though it has pretty clear uses in accounting way before the scientific method was a thing
A great example of what would happen if someone who has this intelligence at a young age, grows up in a great enviornment. As a kid his parents had the ability to benefit his learning with lots of things for him to use and learn from.
Besides his family, many many people recognised his talents, assisted, and paved the way to allow him to maximise his abilities. We need more of these unsung heroes. ( teachers, principle, supervisors, etc)
He is working on two of the millennium problems based on saying his work has been about naviert stokes and primes. Perfect endeavors for the greatest of the great maths minds.
"There is a place for using computers but first you have to work out... what is worth computing" I wish more computational scientists and engineers would spend more time on working out this strategy before embarking on huge computations wasting a lot of valuable CPU hours. (Un)fortunately, for many in the computational science world computing is both the means and the end of their activity. There is rarely any deep analysis of the necessary strategy that Terence so humbly talks about.
Absolutely right. "Supercomputers" are overrated. You could run a very good scientific career just with 1 laptop. In the past, great universities had only a millionth of 1 laptop. And they made nuclear bombs, mach 3 jets and landed on the moon. Clever programming is the real constraint, NOT speed or storage.
The type of computing Tao refers to is not of the sort applied scientists carry out in their work. For example, you can verify that the Collatz conjecture holds for all positive integers up to 10^6, or test other assertions this way, or gain intuition about special cases of some theory, or simplify an expression analytically with a computer algebra system. It doesn't seem to me that computational scientists and engineers waste their CPU hours on computations, because their problems are much more tractable.
As an Australian, I can confirm that Crocodile Dundee accent is a caricature of rural Australians. Terence's accent is quite common amongst educated Australians both rural and city.
@@yulonglian2137 I agree with your sentiment, but it's almost like a super-power. They mathematical level of abstraction requires a different way of thinking, which I think is quite unique. So I think for a day it would be very fun. Just like I think it would be fun to live in a daredevils mind for a day. However like you said I enjoy Gardening, and Mathematics. I think thats the cool thing about the internet, is that we can live vicariously through these people while pursuing our own goals and objectives. It displays humanities global effort.
Terry Tao was also best friends with the classical composer Julian Cochran according to some media reports. Imagine being amongst their conversations in high school.
Terence sir, you can never become a clerk or shopkeeper as your hand writing is not great...but the whole world knows that if you put some effort you can easily solve the remaining few unsolved mathematical problems which mankind failed to solve upto this edge of time. Thank you.
you forgot to say (real) btw, would have 100% believed if you just said that one word, even though an "ong ong frfr bussin tbh no cap" wouldnta hurt either
Dude's Australian, and judging from your username you're Indian. How on earth did you teach him back in the '80s, when there wasn't that many Indian immigrants in Australia?
Lots of smart people but he comes off first of all as a kind, balanced human being. His genius in one area is just that - genius in ONE AREA, and he seems like someone who doesn’t define himself off one ability
Iq is merely the measure of how quickly you can identify patterns verbally or mathematically. Usually, people with higher iq's are smarter as they can learn new things much quicker and can understand it to a much greater depth. Whilst iq may not be entirely accurate it certainly is a good estimation of one's intelligence... I believe that haters of the iq test are those who do not score very highly.
Am surprised at how many good mathematicians are of Chinese heritage, including this guy, unknown and unemployable at the many teaching jobs he applied for, and ending up working at Subways for a while, surely Subway's smartest ex-employee! 😂 www.concordmonitor.com/counting-from-infinity-zhang-unh-math-twin-prime-movie-12492993
Iq is definitely a mesure of intelligence, but you know, they are exceptions, persons who have scored lower than expectations (due to their stress or mindset or even other difficulties that can be generated with higher iq that general). So the iq tests are indeed relevant but sometimes it has flaws.
My favorite planet is Neptune because nobody talks about it. It's also interesting. There are a few moons I fall for, too. While I know that it was the neanderthals who said, "Don't not come near us, lest you die (disease) and the copper they enlightened us to make as it gets germs away, I would have written a book about how they were from Titan or something, lots of radiation, and they couldn't get near us, lest they scar their bodies. I also think there are more human-types that have more neanderthal in them and who hide like the gods of civilizations old and some African mixes, too. Many Africans, even though people are like, low IQ as a group, are extremely wise and open their minds up to more despite taking a test that has no composite meaning. I'm not trying to get out of my IQ. Years of abuse destroyed my memory.
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That’s why I always loved math, there is a definite correct answer! There isn’t a grey area in between. I don’t like courses that there are multiple correct answers! I wanna be right or wrong. I thought I was the only one that thought that way LMAO!
If only, education systems of the world would seek out more gifted children like Terence Tao used to be (he is not a child anymore that's what I mean), we would have more people like Terence Tao as most of these highly gifted or even gifted children go under the radar and their abilities, talents and gifts dont get explored and dont get given properties and care needed for growth of the said gift, so at the end of the day, their gifts get wasted away.
to be fair, their "gifts" are never wasted, they simply just don't become famous. I've only come across some a few times, but it's genuinely shocking when you see a coworker, a neighbor, or an acquaintance you never think much of, only come to find out their houses are covered in paintings and mathematics and their computer screens have code all over them. The reality is it's just not like the movies, most geniuses live quiet lives of solitude, most of us will never interact with them.
Agree. Those surround him when he was little boy/teen, assisted and paved the way for his success. He has great teachers, thoughtful principle, supervisors that recognised his talents early.
This is a problem with people having High IQs, their Brain Processes things so fast that 🙄that they cannot align it with their speech, which is camparitively slower!!
after seeing that other piece about Tao doing Ph.D mathematics as an 8 year old, i conclude his IQ might be around190-ish. if it is beyond that, don't fault me.
Why are East Asians generally so smart? People say it’s because they study harder and emphasize education, but it’s more than that. There has to be a genetic component involved.
