Trying to read the books Terence Tao read as a child

The Books 📚

Books written by Tao 📖

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[Kritagya]

He read calculas at 8
When I was helping dora with her map.

[koungmeng]

I agree with you. His Environment should have played an important role in his learning process. His father is a doctor, and his mother is a teacher. They valued education and provided young Terence with many learning resources. Moreover, Terence was full of focus and commitment.

[anaghshetty]

Tao was a prodigy, but you give us the inspiration to not let our self-esteem drop and continue

[thaxaspeckle]

"Amongst all the seriousness of math is a human reminder and a source of human company"
- Tibees, 2021, upon having seen the annotations.

[takyc]

Tibees voice is like ASMR but the words actually have substance and meaning!

[sgtreckless]

Wait, Terence is 46? He looks amazing for a 46 year old.

[MrFeeltheheat]

before having creativity in mathematics, one needs to have a solid background in calculus and logic

[ChristAliveForevermore]

I'm shocked more by how well-adjusted a person Terance grew into, moreso than his early precocity and impeccable memory. Child geniuses, like child actors, have a hard time growing up in a "normal" way, and sometimes compensate their enormous intellects with arrogance or with extreme introversion.

Terance is as normal as they come, the only difference is that his mathematical logical faculties are lightyears ahead of everybody he passes on the street.

[fizyknaut]

My 'to be read' list grows once again. I may not understand these books fully yet, but I sure will try.

[ClaireYunFarronXIII]

Him as a kid had more knowledge and determination than most adults, lol. He is incredible. 👌

[ad_the_nationalist]

I visit this channel just to hear Tibees's voice. Knowledge of Physics and Maths on her channel is bonus.

[worawatsr]

Ahh Terence Tao, the greatest mathematician in our era.

[BigRick]

Terry Tao used to live down the street from me. I only heard about him from some people I knew. However my Psych Assessment lecturer at Flinders Uni, Dr Robyn Young had quite some interaction with him and had a few interesting stories as I recall. She probably still works there. Nice lady.

[shivam]

Tibees: anyone may have been able to read these books at a young age
Me: yeah mayb-
Tao: learns integration when everyone else is learning to multiply numbers together

[taconator]

What an insightful person to be looking into things like logic and calculus at such a young age. I personally have always had to drag myself into math kicking and screaming so seeing such a motivated child prodigy wanting to learn so much about the world is really amazing. What an inspiration, thanks so much for all the good content you make math easy to digest in a more fun form.

[axebjo]

You even made me learn from the sponsor segment. YOU are brilliant Tibees!

[anameyoucantremember]

1:13 Glad she acknowledged exactly what I commented on her previous Terence Tao video. Maybe if we stop propagating the idea of genius as a mystical unnatural superpower that only a chosen few could ever dream to grasp, we could stop deterring brilliant kids from achieving their full potential.

[kingarthr]

I remember reading a calculus book at 9 but I definitely didn't understand anything. I remember it was because my older brother was learning calculus and I asked him "what dx5.y?" and he said it made no sense so I read his book to find an answer.

[e-learningtutor]

The most underrated youtuber i have ever seen..
Subscribed..Thank you so much for the amazing content ❤️

[williamrockwell]

At 8 I was trying to remember my times tables. So it is pretty clear those books weren't for me.

In my twenties I did get a BA in math. So it wasn't as if math was impossible to me.