Terence Tao is the greatest mathematician alive today | Luís and João Batalha and Lex Fridman

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Luis and Joao Batalha are co-founders of Fermat's Library.

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[-Peaks]

It will be great to have Terrence Tao in the podcast

[Avicenna]

I almost failed a couple of math classes as an undergraduate myself. I knew Terrence Tao and I must have something in common.!

[alphabetacanton]

Although the interview was very short, the speaker managed to sum up the low and highlights of Tao's life. True, Tao is an exceptionally open and generous communicator and his greatest work came from collaborative efforts. His Polymath project was a trailblazing in the internet age. I am always surprised that he has the time to read the comments (some of them very long) on his blog. The fact that one of the comments provided him with the inspiration to solve a complex problem was really interesting.

[erom]

Collaborative math, I know what he means. One time I was stuck on a Zelda's game, and a couple of kids came to my house and I let the play Zelda, didn't told them nothing (intentionally) and in a couple of second the kid gave me the idea on how to pass that part of the game. He didn't know how to play, but sometimes a "fresh" mind can see the problem in a diferrent way.

[growthaddiction]

It’s like a real time peer-review and peer collaboration. This is how research should be done. Forget personal accolades. Technology now allows you to collaborate with any expert anywhere in the world with very little friction, without being in the same room. Imagine what we can accomplish!

Others researchers and scientists should adopt this any way they can.

[chesstictacs]

Terrence Tao and Grigory Perelman. Both are living legends.

[SouperSaiyan]

The greatest mathematician is the friends we made along the way.

[timw]

9 x 9 = 81. I worked that out by doing 10 x 9 = 90 - 9 = 81. Your move Mr Tao.

[juanespinoso]

My favorite mathematician is still Will Hunting, it's not your fault, it's not your fault.

[jinzzzxx]

I watched a korean series called Melancholia and it focuses on this young gifted mathematician. I really like it, learned a lot throug out the show(I think), showed me bunch of formulas (at some point I thought I was gonna throw up) and all the letters with numbers gave me anxiety. I still decided to finish the show and now my head hurts. I salute all mathematicians out there in fact I wish I was one. But I can be funny!

[debanjansengupta]

Lex please please interview Tao. It will be great.

[robertschlesinger]

Very interesting and worthwhile video. Terry Tao is amazing.

[BlastinRope]

Hes no big shaq, but impressive none the less

[brianwade]

Sounds like an interesting guy. I'm going to check out the blog.

[sicknado]

"We are in a system where we are constantly being told that you're not special, special isn't special." -Terence McKenna

[rhaegar]

The greatest mathematician is Joe Rogan, but only when he is on DMT

[_Triangularity]

We all want to look up at someone with a special gift for answers, but the truth is that the answers are the tiny grains of sand we find everyday that slowly build the castle

[alessandrofacciani]

The mathematician I love the most is still Paul Erdos..

[thieudo]

How about Perelman ? He solved one of seven problems in mathematics

[playapapapa]

2:10 yes! This is what I want to do. I want to quit my job and post all my research in blogs and video essays and encourage people to collaborate and give suggestions. It would be the dream life. No more wasting time on problems I don’t care about to get a paycheck.