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.
I don’t think calling Tao an open collaborator does justice to his individual abilities. It gives the impression that he’s one of many equals in his projects.
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.
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.
Oh yeah buddy? Well I did 9 * 9 = 81 by holding up my hands in front of my face, then putting down my 9th finger (counting from the left), then adding up the fingers to the left of my put-down finger as 10s, and the fingers to the right of my put down finger as 1s. 8 fingers to the left = 8 * 10 = 80 1 finger to the right = 1 * 1 = 1 80 + 1 = 81, who’s this Mr Tao guy? Sounds like a chump
@@aformula4198 There is a difference between no publishing in Western magazines and not working. He made it pretty clear how he is perceiving academic bureaucracy
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!
Every term has a meaning and extremely specific in those equations. If you practise well and understand each of those terms, you can master it. Anyone can.
It’s like learning to program or learning a new language, none of the syntax makes sense at first but once you’ve been looking at them for years/decades you’re like “wait why can’t you guys see this as well???”
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
This russian guy solving the 1mil$ millenial math problem and refusing the money, giving us the finger because we are dumb shits is without a doubt the king of mathematics. Grigori Perelman
1:00 "He was known for like the Erdos... for a lot of things." That moment he realized he knew Erdos was like the most prolific mathematician of the last century.
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.
Have you heard of Grigori Perelman ? However you did, Grigori probably would not have cared what we speak of him, he rejected the most prestigious medal in the field of Maths to live in solitude
I like to think that there's a young child just now exploring under every mathematical rock they can find who is the greatest mathematician alive today. This is not a knock on Tao's greatness, rather it's an optimism about our future.
Greatest? I think it depends on the area of math you are speaking of... there are a couple dozen or more mathematicians of his caliber alive today. Those contemporaries who are almost certainly of the same caliber of Tao - Serre, Atiyah, Gromov, Deligne, Yau, Freedman, Faltings, Connes, Artin, Mumford, Bombieri, Milnor, Perelman, Bourgain, Langlands, Kontsevich, Taylor, Wiles, Bhargava, Witten, Lurie, Donaldson, Tate, John Thompson, Jaques Tits, Peter Scholze etc... A non exhaustive list in no particular order. As Tao said himself, there are areas where he has gaps and those are some very big and deep areas filled with other great minds. He may have published more papers than most, but that it not the only measure. The results by the others I have listed have often been more groundbreaking and deeper than the bulk of Tao's work.
Terry Tao doesn't like the whole "greatest" debate anyway, which is inane. He just loves collaborative problem solving and teaching (including teaching bright children)
@@muhammadputera6593 Identifying great mathematical work and hence great mathematicians has value, and Tao is certainly one of the greatest living. He deserves all of the top awards he is getting and his influence on the mathematical community is profound. He has not proven something truly deep or profound like Fermat's Last Theorem or the Poincare Conjecture, but he has been incredibly prolific at the highest levels. He himself recognizes the deep, years long work of a Wiles or Deligne as a different kind of greatness - and we need all kinds of greatness and rightly reward it.
@@Kodaira023 What I wrote was almost certainly of the same caliber, not almost the same caliber. I also wrote that many in my list have done work more groundbreaking and deeper than the work of Tao. He may still do something that impressive, but it has not happened yet. So I am in agreement with you.
@@Helmutandmoshe something impressive ? Terry tao's work in analysis and number theory ? his work on twin prime conjecture , collatz conjecture , goldbach conjecture ? his work in partial differential equations?Kekaya conjecture , sendov conjecture ? chowla conjecture ? discrepancy problem? what about his work on Navier-Stokes equations? what about his work in the field called additive combinatorics ? Probability theory and random matrices ? circular law ? Green tao theorem ? Sum sets in primes ? his work in harmonic analysis ? is this not deeper ? read his chowla conjecture paper you will understand or sendov conjecture paper . world is crazy brooo.He Is the one who got closest to solve collatz. Just to get overview of his work your half of the life will end
Update: The Riemann Conjecture is false All primes are P Such that P cannot be divided by the smallest primes 1,2,3,5,7 1 = 2+2 Ignore 1 Check if divisible by 2,3,5,7 break any encryption I assume
Perelman is more gifted than Scholze. Also you should make the distinction between theory builders in mathematics and problem solvers (i.e. theorem provers). Very rarely is the same mathematician gifted at both. Gauss was one of the 5 greatest theorem solvers/provers of all time. But Grothendieck was arguably a greater theory builder than Gauss. Different mathematicians have different gifts. Scholze couldn't solve the problems Perelman solved. Perelman really should have been awarded the fields medal twice.
I totally agree with what he said about how you never learn to work hard when you're smart enough to get by without working hard. I had the same roadblock in university, getting there was too easy but then it gets serious and if you're not a serious person like me you just fail lol.
Yea Edward Witten was arts major. Petar schlonz was finishing heigh school without skipping. Win field madel at 30 tao at 31. Someone won at 27. Maybe you have naver heard of grothandick..
Fermat Library is great project. However, even if Tao is great (and he is) I think Peter Scholze could replace him as greatest living mathematician. But, math is huge, there is a place for many great researchers.
I agree. It's silly to talk about who the best mathematician is. Different mathematicians achieve different things, and it doesn't make sense to compare them.
The fact that our "prestigious" universities would fail one of, the current greatest world mathematician, is kind of telling on how ass backwards our education system is.
Terence Tao is self-admittedly not great at Algebraic Topology and prefers Real Analysis and Number Theory. What does this tell you? That even the world's greatest mathematician is not perfect and does struggle at some things that other mathematicians are better than him at. Just strive to be the best you that you can be.
What I think Terence Tao doesn't strong at geometric field in mathematics . His works were less dealing with Togology and geometic mathematical physics. Nowadays, there are many branches of mathematics expand rapidly. Even one branch may exhaust many efforts to study. You need to smell which one is important to you and you 're confident to tackle through particular ability on that field
The trouble with mathematics is that there are these mathematical giga chads like terry tao, peter sholze ..ect most of the advancements come from a small group of people. we need to democratize it more to get progrerss
He is now 47, and it is said mathematicians past their prime after their mid-thirties, though there are exceptions here and there. It is said that they do their best work at around 28. According to Jordan Peterson, intelligence (he used the term 'IQ") peaks in the mid-twenties and declines after that. For him, you don't get smarter after around 24, though you can maintain your intelligence (Peterson used 'IQ) if you exercise. When Tao was asked if he had any weaknesses, he said, ' algebra and topology' but that he translated the problem into geometry and analysis to solve it.
@@adgsdfg2169 lol? He has been cited more than 18,000 times as of 2022. You are entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts. Peterson is one of the most influential psychologists. And besides, many psychologists once believed that intelligence peaked at 20. And many scientists do the
There is no such thing as "greatest mathematician ", the same as there's no such thing as "greatest Physiscist". Making those kind of statement really shows your misunderstanding about the nature of science and of life.
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, John Nash, Issac Newton, Terrence Tao, Edward Witten, etc. Isaac Newton gave us Calculus. John Nash gave us Game Theory. Richard Feynman has the highest score in the world by a large margin on the Putnam’s math exam.
@@adrien8572 I stand corrected. John Nash did help further it in the 1950s by making contributions, though. How could I have forgotten John von Neumann?
Though I am certainly far from being a genius, Tao and I share similar study habits in University. Classes I was interested in I would easily pass. Classes I found boring I would get Cs or lower in. Grades are not a measure of one's intellect. They're a measure of one's willingness to hold one's attention on subject matter which is being foisted upon them and then to subsequently perform instructions obtained during that period of time. Essentially school treats human beings like robots rather than individuals with their own creative abilities. And we wonder why geniuses tend to go mad in this world.
The title of the clip doesn't match the clip. It doesn't sound like they think he's "the greatest mathematician alive today". They say he's "one of the most famous mathematicians" and they go on to describe him as a "really smart and talented mathematician". That sounds very far from being described as the greatest one.
Speaking about IMO (International Math Olympiad) how about you make a video about the top scorer in IMO's history, the only one in history who wrote 3 perfect papers? (and nope, it's not the highly popularized Tao...)
That request does not make much sense as many had full score at the math Olympiad. For example one of my team made had that and then he did not even become a mathematician.
The real Mathematics is not IMO thingy. It's different. IMO Problems are kind of good puzzle for real Mathematicians. IMO is a prestigious contest but it's more about hard problem solving with high school level mathematics than researching real advanced mathematics and many contestants choose different career path like computer science, engineering.
@ Akos & Shahriar: I tend to give credit to the top scorers at IMO and to the dudes who solved famous problems/conjectures (I toyed with a few conjectures myself). Actually Tao is commended in Wikipedia for his IMO results: "Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal, respectively. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, having won the gold medal at the age of 13 in 1988." (1988 with the famous problem 6!!) -- so are you saying that that aspect is irrelevant just cuz you consider IMO to be some puzzles between beer buddies?
Maybe he failed his classes because he didnt care about any of the sh*t they were teaching him and only wanted to solve stuff he cared about. I do the same thing. The teachers tried to teach me about cell respiration but they were unsuccessful in teaching it to me in over 10 years of study. But I am rich now so its whatever
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I almost failed a couple of math classes as an undergraduate myself. I knew Terrence Tao and I must have something in common.!
except he was like 9 years when he was in college
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.
The actual interview was 3 hours long lol I'm confused.
I don’t think calling Tao an open collaborator does justice to his individual abilities. It gives the impression that he’s one of many equals in his projects.
@@stupidguy97They’re not mutually exclusive
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.
Mario Party 1 was intuitive in co op. Glad the game mechanics worked well with "split screen"...
you just have a couple of kids on hand
I'm 23 and my 8 year old sister would watch me play zelda and she actually helped me like 3 or 4 times when I was a bit stuck.
@ Eric Martinez You said it right bro.
Tell me which part of Zelda or it didn’t happen. You’re being very elusive and I want more details.
I love Zelda ❤️
The greatest mathematician is the friends we made along the way.
Thank you
Redittian
I hate when that happens.
Mathematicians don't make friends
LOL
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.
9 x 9 = 81. I worked that out by doing 10 x 9 = 90 - 9 = 81. Your move Mr Tao.
Show your work
Oh yeah buddy? Well I did 9 * 9 = 81 by holding up my hands in front of my face, then putting down my 9th finger (counting from the left), then adding up the fingers to the left of my put-down finger as 10s, and the fingers to the right of my put down finger as 1s.
8 fingers to the left = 8 * 10 = 80
1 finger to the right = 1 * 1 = 1
80 + 1 = 81, who’s this Mr Tao guy? Sounds like a chump
Or you can multiple by 2 when it comes to 9s they all flip lol so 9=81/ 8=72/ 7=63/ 6=54 do you see the pattern? 5=45/ 4=36/ 3=27/ 2=185
THAT'S ARITHATIC STUPID 2+ 2 = 4
My favorite mathematician is still Will Hunting, it's not your fault, it's not your fault.
And my favourite thinker is Ben Affleck.
How do you like them apples 🤠😂
good will hunting is fiction.
joke comment.
"Not you man" 🤣
@@centralprocessingunit4988 There was a real Will Hunting, even more perplex:
Evariste Galois
Terrence Tao and Grigory Perelman. Both are living legends.
Hasn't perelman stopped working?
@@aformula4198 I think he did but who knows perhaps he’s working on something big in his solitude. He’s still effing legend.
@@aformula4198 There is a difference between no publishing in Western magazines and not working. He made it pretty clear how he is perceiving academic bureaucracy
Andrew wiles
Peter Scholze
Lex please please interview Tao. It will be great.
@@fritzschnitzmueller3768 I don't think so.
@@fritzschnitzmueller3768 Yes I used to confuse those two.
That would be interesting. Especially if he got Tao’s take on a wide variety of topics and not just his Mathematical research.
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!
Every term has a meaning and extremely specific in those equations. If you practise well and understand each of those terms, you can master it. Anyone can.
What the other replies said.
7 8 9 that's peak humor
It’s like learning to program or learning a new language, none of the syntax makes sense at first but once you’ve been looking at them for years/decades you’re like “wait why can’t you guys see this as well???”
The greatest mathematician is Joe Rogan, but only when he is on DMT
Geometrist
He's more of a philosopher then
😂
yeah listen to his podcast on differential k-forms
And weed too😂
Hes no big shaq, but impressive none the less
Quick maths
arithmetic ting bruv
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
And what about Grigori Perelman ?
It will be great to have Terrence Tao in the podcast
active mathematicians and physicists don't have any time for podcasts or the internet.
probably we can listen to him when he gets old and less active.
"We are in a system where we are constantly being told that you're not special, special isn't special." -Terence McKenna
Most people are mediocre and closer to apes than intelligent humans.
Sounds like an interesting guy. I'm going to check out the blog.
How about Perelman ? He solved one of seven problems in mathematics
This russian guy solving the 1mil$ millenial math problem and refusing the money, giving us the finger because we are dumb shits is without a doubt the king of mathematics. Grigori Perelman
That's kind of dumb. He could have donated it to a cause he supported...
@@Nswix
That's why he was the king
He couldnt give two shits about anything else but math lol
@@theunicornbay4286😂 That's not the most ethical perspective but I get it LOL
He like politics
Dumb as shit. He could use the money to support him to solely focus on his mathematics.
Very interesting and worthwhile video. Terry Tao is amazing.
1:00 "He was known for like the Erdos... for a lot of things." That moment he realized he knew Erdos was like the most prolific mathematician of the last century.
The mathematician I love the most is still Paul Erdos..
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.
EDWARD WITTEN also Fields Medal winner and at Princton advanced studies where Terence got his PhD
I'm kinda surprised Lex Fridman never did an interview with Terence Tao
Makes me feel better about failing number theory the first time I took it
The title must be Lex editorializing. Anybody aware of Serre wouldn't rank Tao above him without comment.
Have you heard of Grigori Perelman ? However you did, Grigori probably would not have cared what we speak of him, he rejected the most prestigious medal in the field of Maths to live in solitude
Lexy you should get Terry in your podcast
The guy who works on the ice-cream van on my street is the greatest mathematition alive
Keep in mind tarrence tao got his Ph. D in math when he was 20
Keep in mind for what?
@@Monocerus90 for the sake of how incredible his achievements are because typically it takes a person until their 30's to get a ph.D
I'm currently 20 and some days ago I thought 9+3= 11
@@Monocerus90 by the way, that is fucking funny!
Smart AND dedicated parents
Paul Erdosh was known for the Erdosh problem. I don't know but that's too funny 😂
Ask Amazon's Alexa : "Who is the smartest man alive?". As of a few years ago she answered: "The smartest man alive is Tery Tao."
He participated in the International Math Olympiad at the age of 10
Get him on the podcast please!!!
I like to think that there's a young child just now exploring under every mathematical rock they can find who is the greatest mathematician alive today. This is not a knock on Tao's greatness, rather it's an optimism about our future.
Love this mentality
That’s a cool way of looking at it
So the real genius is the german guy from the blog ...what is his name ?
Unzicker? 😜
Greatest? I think it depends on the area of math you are speaking of... there are a couple dozen or more mathematicians of his caliber alive today. Those contemporaries who are almost certainly of the same caliber of Tao - Serre, Atiyah, Gromov, Deligne, Yau, Freedman, Faltings, Connes, Artin, Mumford, Bombieri, Milnor, Perelman, Bourgain, Langlands, Kontsevich, Taylor, Wiles, Bhargava, Witten, Lurie, Donaldson, Tate, John Thompson, Jaques Tits, Peter Scholze etc... A non exhaustive list in no particular order. As Tao said himself, there are areas where he has gaps and those are some very big and deep areas filled with other great minds. He may have published more papers than most, but that it not the only measure. The results by the others I have listed have often been more groundbreaking and deeper than the bulk of Tao's work.
Terry Tao doesn't like the whole "greatest" debate anyway, which is inane. He just loves collaborative problem solving and teaching (including teaching bright children)
@@muhammadputera6593 Identifying great mathematical work and hence great mathematicians has value, and Tao is certainly one of the greatest living. He deserves all of the top awards he is getting and his influence on the mathematical community is profound. He has not proven something truly deep or profound like Fermat's Last Theorem or the Poincare Conjecture, but he has been incredibly prolific at the highest levels. He himself recognizes the deep, years long work of a Wiles or Deligne as a different kind of greatness - and we need all kinds of greatness and rightly reward it.
What do you mean almost of the caliber of tao? Serre and deligne are for sure levels above bro, not beneath
@@Kodaira023 What I wrote was almost certainly of the same caliber, not almost the same caliber. I also wrote that many in my list have done work more groundbreaking and deeper than the work of Tao. He may still do something that impressive, but it has not happened yet. So I am in agreement with you.
@@Helmutandmoshe something impressive ? Terry tao's work in analysis and number theory ? his work on twin prime conjecture , collatz conjecture , goldbach conjecture ? his work in partial differential equations?Kekaya conjecture , sendov conjecture ? chowla conjecture ? discrepancy problem? what about his work on Navier-Stokes equations? what about his work in the field called additive combinatorics ? Probability theory and random matrices ? circular law ? Green tao theorem ? Sum sets in primes ? his work in harmonic analysis ? is this not deeper ? read his chowla conjecture paper you will understand or sendov conjecture paper . world is crazy brooo.He Is the one who got closest to solve collatz. Just to get overview of his work your half of the life will end
I just got Terrence Tao's Analysis I and II.
Update: The Riemann Conjecture is false
All primes are P
Such that P cannot be divided by the smallest primes
1,2,3,5,7
1 = 2+2
Ignore 1
Check if divisible by 2,3,5,7
break any encryption
I assume
Dr. Tao , great genius, bless him and his family, bless his work
Professor Tao taught at my alma mater.
UCLA?
I think what Peter Scholze did/does is more deep and impactful. He is also a true genius
Perelman is more gifted than Scholze.
Also you should make the distinction between theory builders in mathematics and problem solvers (i.e. theorem provers).
Very rarely is the same mathematician gifted at both. Gauss was one of the 5 greatest theorem solvers/provers of all time. But Grothendieck was arguably a greater theory builder than Gauss.
Different mathematicians have different gifts.
Scholze couldn't solve the problems Perelman solved. Perelman really should have been awarded the fields medal twice.
No. Is Grigori Perelman...
Lex should talk about S. Ramanujan.
Thanks Bruno Fernandes
What about perelman ?
*ALL* very, very well said..
I create problems for myself everyday.
I totally agree with what he said about how you never learn to work hard when you're smart enough to get by without working hard. I had the same roadblock in university, getting there was too easy but then it gets serious and if you're not a serious person like me you just fail lol.
It's by design since if you fail you will have to pay extra or lose scholarship etc
and surely not hyped enough, and yet I have heard of him through "What's new" about 15 years ago or so, before I even realised it was his...
This is BS. Gregori Preilman, the guy who solved one of the Millenium Prize Problems, is the greatest mathematician alive today
Are these guys going to Minsk?
Martin Hairer is also very impressive
Thanks good reporters, bless you too
I always got in trouble for creating problems ;)
You should meet Sheel Ganatra.
so how the great mathematician calculate the coin printing that use same material but different symbol and pattern ?
17 dislikes are by Arts & Philosophy majors who *"identify"* as revolutionary mathematicians
Yea Edward Witten was arts major.
Petar schlonz was finishing heigh school without skipping. Win field madel at 30 tao at 31. Someone won at 27. Maybe you have naver heard of grothandick..
@@vaibhavdimble9419sentiu
Great, nothing like math bro’s giving their insulting observations like bro’s in every domain. Feeling superior?
The man who knew infinity -Ramanujan
Lex get TT on the podcast.
I never had to study. I avoided grad school cause I realized I’d need to study, but couldn’t.
Perelman laughing in the corner 🗿
This guy accidentally made the pun "quantsequences" 2:24
So he is telling me Tao is simply enjoying his god given abilities and never works hard
these nerds have such a hard time giving props holy shit
Terry Tao went to priso-?? Oh Princeton
Fermat Library is great project. However, even if Tao is great (and he is) I think Peter Scholze could replace him as greatest living mathematician. But, math is huge, there is a place for many great researchers.
I agree. It's silly to talk about who the best mathematician is. Different mathematicians achieve different things, and it doesn't make sense to compare them.
@@justinbenglick The best mathematician would be the one who could get a PhD in every(!) branch of mathematics.
Good luck with that.
@@Wabbelpaddel Well said. But not possible. Even one of branches may exhaust a decade of life to have the spendid work
I love this channel.
So he solved the problem. Did he collect the prize money?
i solved hilberts 16th problem
I am extremely talented in wizardry so I can totally understand
Who is the CompScientist that Lex mentions at 4:20 ?
Scott Aaronson
@@caiobjj Tx this is one time Lex spoke too fast for me
The fact that our "prestigious" universities would fail one of, the current greatest world mathematician, is kind of telling on how ass backwards our education system is.
Why not Peter Scholze?
The greatest mathematician is Love.
Really? What theorems has proven? What research has love advanced?
@@Kurushimi1729 The joke went over your head... you don't know Lex enough haha
Terence Tao is self-admittedly not great at Algebraic Topology and prefers Real Analysis and Number Theory. What does this tell you? That even the world's greatest mathematician is not perfect and does struggle at some things that other mathematicians are better than him at.
Just strive to be the best you that you can be.
What I think Terence Tao doesn't strong at geometric field in mathematics . His works were less dealing with Togology and geometic mathematical physics.
Nowadays, there are many branches of mathematics expand rapidly. Even one branch may exhaust many efforts to study. You need to smell which one is important to you and you 're confident to tackle through particular ability on that field
The trouble with mathematics is that there are these mathematical giga chads like terry tao, peter sholze ..ect most of the advancements come from a small group of people. we need to democratize it more to get progrerss
We’ve been knowing, he’s the greatest mathematicians of our time
This is a sincere question: why do you place him above Perelman and Witten?
WRONG - Grigori Perelman is the GREATEST living Mathematician today ( by far )
Andrew wiles is close second
But Perelman is heads above everyone else
I don't know Terry tao net worth
Gregori Perelman.
Stop copying comments.
@@Roosyer I didn't know that was there.
He is now 47, and it is said mathematicians past their prime after their mid-thirties, though there are exceptions here and there. It is said that they do their best work at around 28.
According to Jordan Peterson, intelligence (he used the term 'IQ") peaks in the mid-twenties and declines
after that. For him, you don't get smarter after around 24, though you can maintain your intelligence (Peterson used 'IQ) if you exercise. When Tao was asked if he had any weaknesses, he said, ' algebra and topology' but that he translated the problem into geometry and analysis to solve it.
Imagine quoting Jordan Peterson lol. The only thing that he is an expert in is Jungian psychology
@@adgsdfg2169 lol? He has been cited more than 18,000 times as of 2022. You are entitled
to your own opinion, not your own facts. Peterson is one of the most influential psychologists. And besides, many psychologists once believed that intelligence peaked at 20. And many scientists do the
what is a prime mathematician and where is it that mathematicians reach their prime in their thirties?
@@mathfood The age at which they do their best work on average or is most productive. I have heard this from famous mathematicians.
@@devondevon4366idiot quoting Jordan Peterson, what a joke
why doesnt he use photomath ...
There are no bests; only those celebrated and not.
are you sure ? any people are using #Science_Relatives and after a time fall in depresion.
Why did UA-cam allow itself to be utterly killed by advertisements
To force people into UA-cam Premium which is ad-free. They got me...I pay the $$ but it's worth it to me.
Capitalism
Just the most famous for public.
Yeah but does he know his 2 x tables by heart?
They say problem a lot
I know, it's a real problem
Srinivasa Ramanujan❤️❤️
There is no such thing as "greatest mathematician ", the same as there's no such thing as "greatest Physiscist".
Making those kind of statement really shows your misunderstanding about the nature of science and of life.
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, John Nash, Issac Newton, Terrence Tao, Edward Witten, etc.
Isaac Newton gave us Calculus. John Nash gave us Game Theory.
Richard Feynman has the highest score in the world by a large margin on the Putnam’s math exam.
Nash didn't give us game theory. Zermelo and Borel did and then Morgenstern and Von Neumann developped it in its modern form.
@@adrien8572 I stand corrected. John Nash did help further it in the 1950s by making contributions, though.
How could I have forgotten John von Neumann?
Though I am certainly far from being a genius, Tao and I share similar study habits in University. Classes I was interested in I would easily pass. Classes I found boring I would get Cs or lower in.
Grades are not a measure of one's intellect. They're a measure of one's willingness to hold one's attention on subject matter which is being foisted upon them and then to subsequently perform instructions obtained during that period of time.
Essentially school treats human beings like robots rather than individuals with their own creative abilities. And we wonder why geniuses tend to go mad in this world.
The title of the clip doesn't match the clip.
It doesn't sound like they think he's "the greatest mathematician alive today".
They say he's "one of the most famous mathematicians" and they go on to describe him as a "really smart and talented mathematician".
That sounds very far from being described as the greatest one.
Speaking about IMO (International Math Olympiad) how about you make a video about the top scorer in IMO's history, the only one in history who wrote 3 perfect papers? (and nope, it's not the highly popularized Tao...)
That request does not make much sense as many had full score at the math Olympiad. For example one of my team made had that and then he did not even become a mathematician.
The real Mathematics is not IMO thingy. It's different. IMO Problems are kind of good puzzle for real Mathematicians.
IMO is a prestigious contest but it's more about hard problem solving with high school level mathematics than researching real advanced mathematics and many contestants choose different career path like computer science, engineering.
@ Akos & Shahriar: I tend to give credit to the top scorers at IMO and to the dudes who solved famous problems/conjectures (I toyed with a few conjectures myself). Actually Tao is commended in Wikipedia for his IMO results: "Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal, respectively. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, having won the gold medal at the age of 13 in 1988." (1988 with the famous problem 6!!) -- so are you saying that that aspect is irrelevant just cuz you consider IMO to be some puzzles between beer buddies?
Maybe he failed his classes because he didnt care about any of the sh*t they were teaching him and only wanted to solve stuff he cared about. I do the same thing. The teachers tried to teach me about cell respiration but they were unsuccessful in teaching it to me in over 10 years of study. But I am rich now so its whatever
The greatest alive is Prandiano. A Brazilian mathematician. A few have heard of him.
Title is click bait. Batalha doesn't say that Terence Tao is the greatest mathematician alive today.
It will be great to have Terrence Tao in the podcast
Yep!
say, terrence? ... yes, phillip? .. **pffffttttt*** MYAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA