Re:Terence Tao started a YouTube channel
by KiranRao0 on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @04:23AM
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Can someone provide a tl;dr on him/why he’s important?
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Gauss 2.0; He’s very prolific, very famous in the math community. In this context, he is noteworthy because he’s taking automated theorem proving seriously which destigmatizes it for other pure mathematicians.
Re:Terence Tao started a YouTube channel
by npsomaratna on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @04:33AM
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Fields medal winner. Arguably the greatest living mathematician.
Some would argue more for Wiles or Perelman on account of solving long-standing conjectures.
Top three greatest living mathematician, perhaps?
I think what gives Tao the title is how multidisciplinary he is. He can wander in to a new subfield of mathematics and start making SOTA contributions after not very much time, which is a rare thing.
Re:Terence Tao started a YouTube channel
by 4gotunameagain on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @06:04AM
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Yes, google can provide that in like 3 seconds, human parsing included.