UCLA Video Spotlight - Profile of Terry Tao

[pinto103093]

I wish to one day aspire to have a tenth of this man's genius.

[BerglundG]

Gosh. It's nice to have some smart people in the world. So many dumbasses messin' up our world.

[MathMikie]

this is silly the start is unimportant its where you end up best in the world is Leonhard euler he discovered the foundations of most branches of maths

[mozart20dlubos]

@MathMikie You're wrong, child prodigies sometimes develop into great mathematicians..

[MathMikie]

@mozart20dlubos yes but the stat is not the most imporotant in my opinion its where you end up what you achieve

[mozart20dlubos]

@MathMikie But if you're a mathematical prodigy, isn't it more likely that you'll become a great mathematician than just some average dumb kid ?

[MathMikie]

@mozart20dlubos yes it is good but some people who arent prodigies become a all time great and some lose interest in maths because if you learn it all when your young you might get bored of maths

[mozart20dlubos]

@MathMikie Not true. When it comes to math, you can never 'learn it all'.

[MathMikie]

@mozart20dlubos but they still might get bored some maths prodigies dont even study maths at uni so then no further progress is made anyone can be good at maths its not that hard maths in school here in the uk is a joke you just plug in numbers to formula no thoery is tested hardly

[kakashi1992e]

wow. What a intriguing person/life.

[Veritian]

what's with all the haters? jeesh. Just be honest and say "Im jealous".. cause I sure am

[dogodwn]

because terence tao is not white, asians suppose to be just doctor or engineer with stucked up mind. If he was white, whole comment will be full of adores..

Am I right white fellas?

[Mantis06]

No, you're just paranoid. Criticism does not imply racist motives.

[vasiliu10]

@Veritian

[jpredsox25]

The fact the you are all arguing about mathematics on You Tube is a little bit ridiculous....

[vjpillay]

Feyman entered MIT to do maths and asked the head of maths what was maths good for/ the prof told him if you were going to ask that question,you were in the wrong dept and some one advised him to engineering.afer spending some time there he switiched to physics. Dirac was an enectrical engineer who did phd in quantum mechanics.Dirac was feyman's inspiration. There is an engineer behind feyman's success and not mathematician

[vjpillay]

No one doubt about the great mathematical talent of a field medelist.But it is ignorance to claim that those brilliant mathematical minds did specialise in a mathematics and not so mathematically talented did engineering.May be in some part of the world .But  not from asia ,l say in india,srilanka and singapore and so on did engineering and those who failed to do engineering did specialise in maths and physics. In any case i like to see those in poor part of world are talent spotted when young.

[vjpillay]

it ia amazing when not all brillant mathematical minds in the world dont specialaise in mathematics but in engineering and theoretical physics,one cannot say that just because those who did in maths,few end up with field medals.

i would only accept that it those brilliant in maths failed to do maths and did engineeing,then i consede that these mathematicans are indeed the best minds of world.

[PrinceAli0602]

To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure what your point is. The purpose of this video is not to establish that mathematicians have the greatest minds in the world. That is an outrageous thing to suggest. The point is that Terry Tao has a brilliant mind because of his landmark contributions to several different areas of mathematics. It is true, however, that the greatest mathematical minds usually pursue pure mathematics rather than physics and engineering. Physics requires a different skillset

[hvutrong]

when you deal with engineering, you deal with the reality, the not-so-perfect stuff and to earn as much money as you can.

when you deal with science, your ultimate goal is to understand things to satisfy your own curiosity.

[vjpillay]

This is nonsense.where did you get your engineering degree. or science degree?

[308346904]

I want to know more videos about Tao~~~~O(∩_∩)O~

[SweepManiac]

Ok Riemann. Let´s hope Barton make fundamental contributions to Mathematics. If he win a Fields Medal I´ll be sure of this. Even if he won´t, but if he publish great papers, recognized papers. He must do that, ok? It´s not enough to be promissing.

Interesting you mentioned Fenyman whose "relationship" with Mathematics was quite "strange". A friends told me a story. Once Feynman was in a lecture (Mathematics).

[SweepManiac]

At the final he said: "if all existing Mathematics dissapeared the development of Physics would be almost entirely unaltered".

Sorry for my very bad English.

[mozart20dlubos]

@SweepManiac I too hope Reid Barton does great research. Unfortunately, the track record of great problem-solvers in mathematical research is not great. Of all the other people who were Putnam fellows for 4 years in a row, none of them have done much significant work: Coppersmith, Vakil, Poonen, Rubin are virtually uknown in the mathematics world.

[SweepManiac]

It´s not the point. I studied Lebesgue Integral - Real Analysis (Royden).

You´re wrong.

What is important for the development of Mathematics is proving theorems. *RESEARCH*. If someone can sit for some hours and solve problems, than those problems are not that difficult. He can win 100 IMO gold medals. This doesn´t produce Mathematics. SERRE, ATIYAH,GROMOV,GROTHENDIECK,YAU­,TAO,WILES, WITTEN,PERELMAN, etc., are not great mathematicians because IMO. They are great because published papers.

[TheRiemannIntegral]

A person who has the capacity to publish papers in mathematics is probably the one who can solve every problem that has already been solved. That is exactly what Richard Feynmann (theoretical physicist) said. So, the guy I mentioned, Barton Reid, is doing his PhD in Harvard, which means he is more likely to publish better results, given his unrivaled feat. The more and better you solve problems, the better you can come up with new ideas.

[mozart20dlubos]

@TheRiemannIntegral @SweepManiac I too hope Reid Barton does great research. Unfortunately, the track record of great problem-solvers in mathematical research is not great. Of all the other people who were Putnam fellows for 4 years in a row, none of them have done much significant work: Coppersmith, Vakil, Poonen, Rubin are virtually uknown in the mathematics world, yet they were some of the greatest problem-solvers as undergrads..

[SweepManiac]

It´s a cool thing to win this gold medals. Obviouly you, me, etc., we are not capable of that. I admire Barton for his achievments, but what is important is the RESEARCH: proving theorems, introducing new ideas, new methods, making conjectures, etc...

If you insist, than I think you are retarded.

Finished.

[TheRiemannIntegral]

Reid Barton (or Barton Reid) is the most brilliant mathematician in the world, not Terry!

Reid won 4 IMO gold medals (a feat reached only be him) and was a 4 time Putnam Fellow (5, because he solved all 12 problems perfectly when he was as a high school student). Take that Terry!

[plevyman]

So he won the Olympiad four times. So what? It will be his research output that determines whether he can even be compared to Terry Tao.

[TheRiemannIntegral]

Yeah, he is getting his doctorate at Harvard. And he will be ready to give some nice Terry ass whopping, not to mention the one you will get.

[uscstudent13]

the man speaks the truth

[SweepManiac]

"ready to give some nice Terry ass whopping". Uau! You are so good with words! plevyman is totally right. RESEARCH. There are 6 remaining problems from Clay Mathematics Institute. There is the Goldbach Conjecture. Many, many others. He could pick one and try to solve it. Two? 3?...

Tao proved several DEEP results, in different areas. Do you really think he could prove results comparable to those of Tao?

Riemann Integral? I prefer Lebesgue! Great convergence theorems!

Sorry for my poor English

[TheRiemannIntegral]

LoL The Lebesgue integral was developed from the Riemann integral.

Your last message reveals nothing, except that you have no clue as to what you are talking about.

Why are you talking about the unsolved problems? Are you retarded? Saying something unrelated to what I was saying.

There is a guy who is more brilliant than this Terry. He has a record which has been achieved only by him. He will kick Terry's ass.

Finished.

[SweepManiac]

Please, read my answer on top.

[hvutrong]

Fermat, Pithagore, Gauss, Newton, Einstein did not won any medal for math, physics,.. olympic at all.

It is not the scale to determine the cleverness of a person.

[Oivattus]

yes...he's a genius...but the most important thing among all, is that he found the willingness of study hard and improve his abilities!

[petitetoile]

Anyone had his class at UCLA?

[headlisthorseman]

honors analysis

[issam150]

grand mathématicien:)

[BRAKIMOT]

great teao, the best

[bshitter]

Holy cow

[pidigigi]

Genius, speechless.....