Pulling back the curtain: Terence Tao on mathematics in the Internet age

2015 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics winner Terence Tao talks about how online collaboration is supercharging math and science, including the Polymath project that led to his solution of the famous "Erdős discrepancy problem."

[Mta]

Thanks Terry. You motivate me to keep trying. 'Attacking' the problem with as many angles as possible.

[brooktsui]

What has touched me most is the glow of his love for math, the genuine smile regarding twin prime conjecture, and else.

[loveCUsmile]

His smile and eyes are so adorable and innocent. Anyhow, I admire his intelligence and determination.

[xchan]

Interesting, the thing I love about Terence Tao is he is all ways thinking at many different angles I would love to be just like him when I grow up.He motivates me to try harder and think harder.

[JM-usfr]

You're wonderful Terry. I hope you prove the twin prime conjecture. Not that you need any more fame :P

[RareKino]

We need more clones of him. Don't let his genes die out. Literally.

[bluestrue]

Dr Tao, you are such a genius and an inspiration...

[SV]

This guy is smart, he should work on the unsolved mysterious of the universe.

[sarawat]

His voice is amazingly deep.
It's like asmr!!
I really like listening him

[lordofspoons]

who would win in arm wrestling between him and Yuji Tachikawa?

[LivingDead]

Prime numbers drive me up the wall. I'm a laymen. I was locked up for several months and discovered a few patterns. All I had were numbers and a Smithsonian magazine and 12 hours to pace and think--with a floppy pen. Of course, my patterns fizzled out, but I still am fond of my method. Beat me, bitches, or go back to puking up calculus for your teacher crush. I also found a triangle after reading a Linus Pauling textbook and have used it a few times but not enough. I believe I channeled him, or he was thinking about the triangle. Most people become angry with me. It was like a vision.

[davidwilkie]

The existence of structures composed of quantum information forming a "local" reality, labelled the "p-brane" mathematically, that has no "final solution", implies that specific postulates of a closed or complete nature, are probably only true for posited definitions, (which is fine for Number Theory), but the leaky temporal substantiation of material space, implies that the universe is evolving dynamically, along the lines of the Banach-Tarski Conjecture. (?)

If the manifestation of B-T C is generated by the Exclusion Principle/reciprocal field of the natural logarithm, then information state structures simply exist in modulated-moduli of log base Quantum Numbers in a spectrum of innate convergence images, (dimensional vanishing point-particles, constant "phys-chem" compounds of primes and cofactors), of the projected/implied reciprocal space field. Quantum Duality equates to a solid-liquid stepped progression of relative boundaries for QFT wave-particle integrations. (This is not definitive, it's in the nature of Conjecture)

[ZorlacSkater]

I wonder how it feels like to be this inteligent. He has an IQ of 230.

[DanZhukovin]

I wanna see this guy do a martial arts battle with Kim Ung Yong

[TheVinciol]

seems like is mind is faster than is speach

[Sara-nyhi]

I need him as my personal tutor, Im so stupid

[where]

Great insights on the upcoming digital revolution. Terence has very small ears tho lol

[mariarahelvarnhagen]

Chern Character In The Chemistry Of Kary Mullis ?

[shifudo]

En France on a un mec qui se pretend l'égal de Terence Tao, aberkane Idriss, notre plus grand mytho français

[alphabetacanton]

Wearing a proper shirt for a change!! Looks much better than the polo ones!!