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Re:Perfect Numbers (1983) by dang on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:22PM (#29009206)
The submitted title was "Terence Tao's first published paper, at 8 years old". That's excellent information to add, but it should be added as a comment, not as an editorialized title. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
Re:Perfect Numbers (1983) by nine_k on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:01AM (#29014196)
This, unfortunately, seriously affects the chance of clicking on the link, because it hides the most interesting bit of information.

Rules are rules, but shortcomings are shortcomings :-\

Re:Perfect Numbers (1983) by dang on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:00PM (#29018366)
Yes, but it had made the front page at the time, which already guarantees quite a lot of attention.
Re:Perfect Numbers (1983) by ImTheMaddest on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:26PM (#29009227)
http://math.fau.edu/yiu/Oldwebsites/MPS2010/TerenceTao1984.p...

This is a journal about a series of interviews with Terrence. It was written at approximately the same time his first paper was published.

Quite a fascinating read.

Re:Perfect Numbers (1983) by svat on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:44AM (#29009944)
Wow, thanks for sharing. Even the

    320 print "(brmmmm-brmmmm-putt-putt-vraow-chatter-chatter bye mr. fibonacci!)"
shows something beyond most of us. :-)
Re:Perfect Numbers (1983) by vavooom on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:13PM (#29009172)
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/

Terence's blog is a wonderful view into his research and background, as well as a catalog on the immense amount of work he has accomplished in such a short time. Will be interesting to see what future accomplishments he can achieve.