Terence Tao is the greatest mathematician alive today | Luís and João Batalha and Lex Fridman
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It will be great to have Terrence Tao in the podcast
Yep!
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
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
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 ❤️
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
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.
Very interesting and worthwhile video. Terry Tao is amazing.
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
Sounds like an interesting guy. I'm going to check out the blog.
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.
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.
You CAN do it though jinzzz! I believe in you. Somewhere along the line somebody isn’t explained the concepts in a way that engages them and they get left behind. The feeling of being left behind makes them feel lost and unsatisfied with mathematics. You just need to start from scratch and build up your understanding. In a few years I’m sure you’d be able to watch that show again and understand almost all the symbols! Don’t give up though. It takes a while to build up that expertise
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???”
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
Lex please please interview Tao. It will be great.
@@fritzschnitzmueller3768 I don't think so.
@@fritzschnitzmueller3768 Yes I used to confuse those two.
I think Tao is too smart for podcasts like these lol
That would be interesting. Especially if he got Tao’s take on a wide variety of topics and not just his Mathematical research.
Hes no big shaq, but impressive none the less
Quick maths
arithmetic ting bruv
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
To be fair Perelman has a claim to this too. What he did is insane
The guy who works on the ice-cream van on my street is the greatest mathematition alive
And what about Grigori Perelman ?
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.
Thanks good reporters, bless you too
I'm kinda surprised Lex Fridman never did an interview with Terence Tao
Paul Erdosh was known for the Erdosh problem. I don't know but that's too funny 😂
Dr. Tao , great genius, bless him and his family, bless his work
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😂
Professor Tao taught at my alma mater.
UCLA?
EDWARD WITTEN also Fields Medal winner and at Princton advanced studies where Terence got his PhD
*ALL* very, very well said..
Are these guys going to Minsk?
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
Lexy you should get Terry in your podcast
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
How about Perelman ? He solved one of seven problems in mathematics
"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.
He participated in the International Math Olympiad at the age of 10
Makes me feel better about failing number theory the first time I took it
I love this channel.
I always got in trouble for creating problems ;)
Get him on the podcast please!!!
so how the great mathematician calculate the coin printing that use same material but different symbol and pattern ?
Martin Hairer is also very impressive
Lex should talk about S. Ramanujan.
What about perelman ?
The man who knew infinity -Ramanujan
The title must be Lex editorializing. Anybody aware of Serre wouldn't rank Tao above him without comment.
Who is the CompScientist that Lex mentions at 4:20 ?
Scott Aaronson
@@caiobjj Tx this is one time Lex spoke too fast for me
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...
I never had to study. I avoided grad school cause I realized I’d need to study, but couldn’t.
You should meet Sheel Ganatra.
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."
So the real genius is the german guy from the blog ...what is his name ?
Perelman laughing in the corner 🗿
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...
@@NotKimiRaikkonen
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.
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 create problems for myself everyday.
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.
Why did TH-cam allow itself to be utterly killed by advertisements
To force people into TH-cam Premium which is ad-free. They got me...I pay the $$ but it's worth it to me.
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
No. Is Grigori Perelman...
So he solved the problem. Did he collect the prize money?
Lex get TT on the podcast.
why doesnt he use photomath ...
This guy accidentally made the pun "quantsequences" 2:24
Terry Tao went to priso-?? Oh Princeton
Why not Peter Scholze?
So he is telling me Tao is simply enjoying his god given abilities and never works hard
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
i solved hilberts 16th problem
I don't know Terry tao net worth
say, terrence? ... yes, phillip? .. **pffffttttt*** MYAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Title is click bait. Batalha doesn't say that Terence Tao is the greatest mathematician alive today.
I am extremely talented in wizardry so I can totally understand
these nerds have such a hard time giving props holy shit
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?
Thanks Bruno Fernandes
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
Yup he is
Yeah but does he know his 2 x tables by heart?
um my question can he crack iit 😂
Certainly he can solve JEE advanced level MATHEMATICS .HE was awarded the fields medal considered the Nobel prize in mathematics.
✅☑️
I taught Terence everything he knows. He still calls me when he gets stuck.
They say problem a lot
I know, it's a real problem
Gregori Perelman.
Stop copying comments.
@@x78340 I didn't know that was there.
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.
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.
@@fragileomniscience7647 Well said. But not possible. Even one of branches may exhaust a decade of life to have the spendid work
The greatest alive is Prandiano. A Brazilian mathematician. A few have heard of him.
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?
Srinivasa Ramanujan❤️❤️
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.
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?
i respect the fact he spelled "gay" with dominos automatic math legend
The fact that our "prestigious" universities would fail one the current greatest world mathematician, is kind of telling on how ass backwards our education system is.
Wrong statement:
Peter Scholze, he won medal fields
There are no bests; only those celebrated and not.
Just the most famous for public.
For sure i am not. I am normal as hell.
Is there a proof that an angle cannot be trisected?
Nah it’s me
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
Didn’t know Uncle Roger was a mathematician too