Trying to read the books Terence Tao read as a child

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[@Kritagya2007]

He read calculas at 8 When I was helping dora with her map.

[@justinsankar1164]

Whose the real hero here😈

[@toomuchiridium]

Both these comments made me giggle

[@pomm1802]

🤣🤣🤣

[@gasun1274]

istg we shouldnt make these topics taboo to children under the age of 12. who knows how many geniuses we couldve produced if all the infantile tv shows are replaced with kid-friendly basic algebra and calculus shows.

[@wiggle7766]

I was rubbing my cheek on my carpet because it was itchy “inside” and i couldn’t itch it.

[@koungmeng]

I agree with you. His Environment should have played an important role in his learning process. His father is a doctor, and his mother is a teacher. They valued education and provided young Terence with many learning resources. Moreover, Terence was full of focus and commitment.

[@purefoldnz3070]

I would say genes are a higher factor in this case.

[@fannyalbi9040]

do u think can v use the same methods his parents taught and make chimpanzee become a genius from young?

[@akpabiomd9970]

Intense study can make people smart!!....there are research on the idea of epigenesis; which elucidate that environment do have influence on a person's intellect..a smart child coming from a smart household shouldn't be a shock since smart people do smart things and build up a smart culture the young tao can emulate.wat do u think???

[@danieltemelkovski9828]

If that were true, then why don't most children of educated couples achieve anything even close to this? In fact, why don't even a tenth of such children achieve as much? The simplest answer (that btw has survived exhaustive attempts to disprove it) is that genes actually matter, and highly gifted kids are essentially a random genetic fluke who only require a minimal amount of "right environment" for their talents to shine through. It's just the way the world is.

[@purefoldnz3070]

@@danieltemelkovski9828 Yes exactly. Genes play an important role that are passed on to children.

[@anaghshetty]

Tao was a prodigy, but you give us the inspiration to not let our self-esteem drop and continue

[@aliAlyacoub]

Yeah. Especially when she said, "Most of us were not given these books as 8-year-olds, so we never really know if we could have read them." I know for a fact I would have not read them because I did not know how to read as an 8-year-old, even though I am better than almost all of my peers with my reading skills. His IQ is 225. So, no S**t Sherlock of course he will almost be better than almost all of us.

[@sgtreckless5183]

Wait, Terence is 46? He looks amazing for a 46 year old.

[@saf7189]

that pic was from when he was 31

[@sankalpsundar1668]

@@saf7189 you can find more recent pictures, he does look quite young for 46

[@Nick-kb2jc]

Seriously! I thought he was like early 30s!

[@pierfrancescopeperoni]

The expression on his face looks young. Mathematicians who do pure mathematics are like children in a wonderland.

[@gonzalezm244]

@@sankalpsundar1668 I saw him a Target last year, he looks pretty much the same as the picture lol

[@takyc7883]

Tibees voice is like ASMR but the words actually have substance and meaning!

[@ornicaradepapoursanssur146]

It’s actually sounds like science. Precise, simple and elevating. I can’t say if what I say is correct. Anyway I think there’s a science of talking. The way you talk can change tremendously the way people listen and even process to evaluate the input your giving to them. Lawyers, good teachers, politicians and every people who actually have a substantial vocal expression is familiar with that. I think there’s study on what the speed of your talk say about you, the way you articulate and separate words and basically the way you talk is more important than what you say. I didn’t know Tibees and can’t say if she applies some stuff like that. And I don’t think there’s any bad criticism in what I say because her content is kind and I don’t feel like she tried to influence people more than that. Anyway, I agree even if I don’t think she would like to people sleep on her videos she have a way of talking I like.

[@mengmeng3256]

@@ornicaradepapoursanssur146 skills are important, but voice actually comes from the heart, there is nothing you can hide what comes from the heart.

[@thaxaspeckle2542]

"Amongst all the seriousness of math is a human reminder and a source of human company" - Tibees, 2021, upon having seen the annotations.

[@MrFeeltheheat]

before having creativity in mathematics, one needs to have a solid background in calculus and logic

Nah, you can do math without any calculus. Eg group theory needs no calculus. Or number theory.

[@oscarmartuasinaga5208]

You require solid background in real analysis to have creativity in mathematics including calculus

@Frederik Leones Sure, there are areas where calculus is useful.

[@fragileomniscience7647]

Logic is No. 1 Grasp the foundations of logic and foundations of math, grasp anything.

@@fragileomniscience7647 Nah. I'm pretty good at math and logic, but that doesn't make me an expert at understanding Chinese or human behaviour or physics or horse riding.

[@ChristAliveForevermore]

I'm shocked more by how well-adjusted a person Terance grew into, moreso than his early precocity and impeccable memory. Child geniuses, like child actors, have a hard time growing up in a "normal" way, and sometimes compensate their enormous intellects with arrogance or with extreme introversion. Terance is as normal as they come, the only difference is that his mathematical logical faculties are lightyears ahead of everybody he passes on the street.

[@guitarista666]

The reason that the examples you mention have trouble growing up in a normal way is that if these young people engage in these activities in a much more than normal way , then by definition they are not growing up in a normal way. This inevitably will affect them psychologically.

[@elisabettajdj335]

Thats because most child geniuses arent actually geniuses, but pushed by their parents to be so. Terence is an actual genius

[@shivam5105]

Tibees: anyone may have been able to read these books at a young age Me: yeah mayb- Tao: learns integration when everyone else is learning to multiply numbers together

[@Rakkoonn]

To be fair, school curriculum is based on the fact that time has to be split between many subjects. There doesn't seem to be a real reason why children couldn't learn calculus if they spent a lot of extra time on math. I'm just assuming though, since most children don't even get the resources to go further we don't really know if they would able to.

[@JasperKloek]

So was I. But then around 14 I hit my math ceiling. Couldn't understand any of what followed. So, no math college for me. ☹️

[@warrenrandall6936]

I started reading Calculus a year before I needed to at school. That's far too late if you intend to study the subject to a high level. It's like composers of music: the best start composing as children. The best pop musicians started when they were in their early teens.

[@ChristAliveForevermore]

I remember looking at higher mathematics at a young age completely and utterly perplexed. I didn't fully grasp the definitions-theorems style of *true* proof-based mathematics until halfway through my physics degree. Tao realized this fundamental fact at age 6. He was always lightyears ahead his peers in terms of mathematical logic and literally every known marker of intelligence. A Terance Tao only comes along, like, once every generation or two. Even longer if you consider his Fields Medal, which is practically the most difficult award to receive in life.

[@taconator1213]

What an insightful person to be looking into things like logic and calculus at such a young age. I personally have always had to drag myself into math kicking and screaming so seeing such a motivated child prodigy wanting to learn so much about the world is really amazing. What an inspiration, thanks so much for all the good content you make math easy to digest in a more fun form.

[@fizyknaut8108]

My 'to be read' list grows once again. I may not understand these books fully yet, but I sure will try.

[@ayushgupta-pc9yz]

So you will read a book just because Terence read it 40 years ago? Even if better books are available today?

[@fizyknaut8108]

@@ayushgupta-pc9yz I'm not planning to read them all- but I checked all of them out to pick the ones I like. Even if there are better books though, I do still think that even just the act of researching these and potentially seeing other reccomendations is a pretty good starting point, right?

[@ayushgupta-pc9yz]

@@fizyknaut8108 yeah makes sense. That list's name 'to be read' is confusing tbh :p

[@JasperKloek]

To read a book TT read isn't to pretend to be TT.

[@ClaireYunFarronXIII]

Him as a kid had more knowledge and determination than most adults, lol. He is incredible. 👌

[@azmard4865]

Wow FFXIII

[@ad_the_nationalist3988]

I visit this channel just to hear Tibees's voice. Knowledge of Physics and Maths on her channel is bonus.

[@ControlledCha0s]

You and I both, my friend, you and I both. 😎

[@charlesyurek5813]

Wonderful program ! Smart/fun, also wise, with really helpful, and practical bits relating to any subject/life.

[@worawatsr9803]

Ahh Terence Tao, the greatest mathematician in our era.

[@MuantanamoMobile]

Grigori Perelman.

[@muhammadputera6593]

@@MuantanamoMobile Terence Tao.

[@EdgarCamacho11729]

Peter Scholze

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[@Enigma758]

They are all great in their own way.

[@e-learningtutor1351]

The most underrated youtuber i have ever seen.. Subscribed..Thank you so much for the amazing content ❤️

[@gabi-dh9eo]

tibeeees i love your videos so much! ty for always uploading

[@sameersayyad6170]

Love You Tibees❤️ Your these videos keep our curiosity alive to learn continuously!! Thanks ✌️

[@anameyoucantremember]

1:13 Glad she acknowledged exactly what I commented on her previous Terence Tao video. Maybe if we stop propagating the idea of genius as a mystical unnatural superpower that only a chosen few could ever dream to grasp, we could stop deterring brilliant kids from achieving their full potential.

[@FrostDirt]

Sure, don't forget to be realistic about it though.

[@quintessenceSL]

Problem is there are myriads of ways to be "genius" and I reckon very few get the opportunity to discover where they are gifted, let alone the opportunity to develop it. In a world of infinite possibilities, you are finite, and are probably ahead of the curve just to whittle down what you don't want.

[@JasperKloek]

Well, then thanks for commenting on her previous video.

[@allanhenriques2694]

No

[@johnnyq4260]

Let's not kid ourselves. Few of us would have been Tao even if we had had exactly the same environment. Even his brothers aren't as mathematically accomplished as him.

[@BigRick50]

Terry Tao used to live down the street from me. I only heard about him from some people I knew. However my Psych Assessment lecturer at Flinders Uni, Dr Robyn Young had quite some interaction with him and had a few interesting stories as I recall. She probably still works there. Nice lady.

[@nickborrrego]

You're just awesome. Thanks again for another excellent video!

[@pepaxxxsvinka3379]

Looking forward to watching the new video! I loved the video about Terence Tao's exam! It was so interesting! thank you, Toby :)

[@SamTheMan12]

Thanks for the book recommendations! I am very interested in Flatland!

[@wacksparrow88]

You should keep making videos, they were very informative.

[@mudassirbaig21]

Very nice work, appreciate it !

[@josephsage3524]

You make these subjects extremely fun

[@henri1158]

I m not really instrested about the topics you are talking about(certainly because i didnt went at a high level at school) but the way you speak soothes me, thank you for that Tibees :)

[@water618]

even excerpts help one to get an overall feel for the book. Thank you Tibees, you cultivate a joy and love for learning!

[@nehaseth2793]

PhD Thesis of Paul Dirac? I think it's a good idea! As he was I guess the first person to do a PhD in the Subject of Quantum Mechanics!

[@nehaseth2793]

By the way he is one of my Idol ( Paul Dirac)

[@danielestaub9445]

Wow. Very interesting content. Thank you!

[@Ldoeoni]

Thank you! very resourceful information. you are an angel.🥰

[@rogerarrysheldon8394]

this is a wonderful title. i dont know how i've missed this one.

[@williamrockwell9001]

At 8 I was trying to remember my times tables. So it is pretty clear those books weren't for me. In my twenties I did get a BA in math. So it wasn't as if math was impossible to me.

[@ChristAliveForevermore]

Tao could have gotten his Bachelor's in math by the time he was 10, but it seems his parents opted for a slightly more normal upbringing, though he did achieve degrees far earlier than anybody else to my knowledge.

[@ChristAliveForevermore]

@Piranha hound Yoo It really depends on if those kids are wired for that kind of thinking early-on. Tao was lopsided in his intelligence: he thought exclusively analytically from a very early age, but had to learn to think more visually later (which is now reflected in his math work). People can *learn* to think in unfamiliar ways, but people are *wired* to think in a way most natural to themselves: some think primarily visually (one might say artistically), and others, like Tao, may think, by-and-far, primarily logically. I think psychologists have isolated at least 8 seperate types of intelligence (which I suppose one could consider "ways of thinking"), and we all share a mixture of these types of intelligences in our primary modes of thinking. Some people are simply, for lack of a better word, lopsided in how these types of intelligence distribute to make up their dominant mode of thinking.

[@axebjo]

You even made me learn from the sponsor segment. YOU are brilliant Tibees!

[@rocks813]

The logic book you showed looks interesting! Thank you for this wonderful video, Tibees ❤️

[@pierreabbat6157]

When I was a kid, I read, I think, the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables. I remember it was a CRC book and it had a section on curves. I talked with my father about the podaire (pedal curve, he was French and he didn't know the term in English), evolute, and involute of curves, and argued about whether the inverse of a hyperbola is a lemniscate (it is, if they're a rectangular hyperbola and a Bernoulli lemniscate, but we didn't know how to prove it).

[@hansklimstra5987]

I would be really interested to see your explanation of the contributions of Katherine Goble Johnson in the movie "Hidden Figures" I'm basically totally useless in math but very intrigued by it and watch many of your videos.

[@brendanbramman]

Great video! On the note of flatland having poor taste in regard to a lot of the social aspects of the book: Abbott was actually writing it as a satire about the Victorian society he lived in.

[@JasperKloek]

Thanks for mentioning that!

[@lavandolouca6630]

Political correct people cannot get irony

[@justinji8634]

Terence Tao: Reading and learning calculus at age 8 with an IQ of 230. Me at age 8: Mom, can you change my diaper?

[@justinsankar1164]

At 8?!?!

[@vk2ig]

More like: can you please do up my shoelace?

[@pffftnames9047]

@@justinsankar1164 did he stutter?

[@JameBlack]

Noone wears diapers at 8

[@robertveith6383]

@ James Black -- * No one

[@kingarth0r]

I remember reading a calculus book at 9 but I definitely didn't understand anything. I remember it was because my older brother was learning calculus and I asked him "what dx5.y?" and he said it made no sense so I read his book to find an answer.

[@laislabella]

I Agree. I remember in my chilhood i read the books of time life series, and other books of advanced level, and this makes an deep effect on me.

[@chhotu4205]

Came to hear your calming voice, mark my present in your heart 💖

[@Enigma758]

I think it's wonderful that his early development led you to read these books. Your inspiration is inspiring to others!

[@senagemechisfile1747]

Hi! I have seen your exam unboxing video for Jee and other exams..please make a video on the Ethiopian University Entrance Examination...they are available online....

[@user-zr2cs5zg6q]

Hi tibee , we hope that you tell us how can you stay focused on things you do like learning physics or reading books ,especially that you have a youtube channel and it distracts you , How can you manage your task ( not time) .. and keep focused without distractions Thanks for your great videos ❤❤🌹 ❤❤🌹

[@NeverMind-vx7pl]

I watched many of Tibee’s videos. I like her channel, its excellent. Why do I get the impression that Tibees was reading these book too at 8?

[@timbeaton5045]

Re looking at text books, the one which got me through the (limited!) maths i did at college, was 'Calculus Made Easy' by Sylvanus Thompson, which is quite a useful text for beginners in calculus. What might be interesting would be to do a video on Nicolas Bourbaki and some of "his" text books, as there is an interesting story behind this "person" and the aims of the texts written under that name. Just a thought!

[@ankushds7018]

Does anyone know any math books that can be read as novels? Like, "The Housekeeper and the Professor"?

[@CountGinula]

I could listen to Tibees read anything. As a Kiwi are you into your Rugby (or footy?) ?

[@fearmagicnightmare4143]

I don’t know if you read comments but I started watching your videos a month ago. I like all your content but I wanted to ask if you can take an SAT math section and upload it?

[@eleven_11neetnotes49]

I don't know why i watch these vedios but i watch them all ( i dont have that interest in mathematics) but i think ita your calm And sweet voice that let me to do so 😇😄

[@rbarriae]

I love her voice. He modulates words very well and uses the perfect tones in each syllable. Greetings from Chilean Patagonia.

[@valmid5069]

Flatland: *an underrated novel-a dystopian classic using geometry*

[@themrdeadlift]

"my wife is a line." Now im just lost. Id assume shed be a shape.

[@vk2ig]

That might be part of what Tobey was saying at 2:24 regarding the social commentary on gender. If his wife was a shape, then I think an irregular 3 dimensional one would be ideal as it would lend some level of unpredictability depending on where she was located on a normal to the plane on which Mr. Square resided.

[@pierfrancescopeperoni]

In Flatland all the waifus are lines.

[@peterbrough2461]

Spooner's life was a wine.

[@tomkerruish2982]

I think they were actually extremely narrow isosceles triangles.

[@vk2ig]

@@tomkerruish2982 Maybe that was her name: Scalene?

[@igorsantosbotelho2890]

Hey Tibees, here in Brazil we have a exam called ITA, the hardest one! Try take a look and bring for your channel, it ll'be interesting!!

[@abinavvijay3572]

Tibess big fan ❤❤

[@medaminehaddad6751]

Great video, can you please publish a video about Einstein's firs scientific essay that he wrote when he was 16?

[@vansf3433]

Takent is an intrinsic quality or a natural ability which can never be copied nor taught at all , although it can be passed on from one human generation to another younger human generation through genetic or DNA inheritance from parents to children or grandchildren

[@supay6537]

Okay I have had enough 😬 SUBSCRIBED 👏🏼

[@galaxy999in]

Get his books on Analysis Vol 1 and 2. His writing is brilliantly simplified without diluting any of the rigour.

[@MyLostYouth]

Sorry, I don't have anything to say about the topic, I'm mostly just here to hear your lovely voice. 😜

[@govindam_adi_purusham7724]

Terence learned at 8, what i am struggling with at 18, great!

[@TheOriginalJayhawk]

Flatland is a great work of satire. I have read it a number of times over the years. I came to understand calculus by attending night school in my twenties as I was keen to study surveying at University level back in the eighties. Then I discovered travel.

[@KrishnaKumar-vd2hp]

Thank u for making me enjoy Maths❤️

[@anupamdebnath1884]

"I'm not the only one who has been here". That's deep.

[@amitloyal2830]

Please make a video on Joint Entrance Screening Test(JEST), Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers(GATE) for Physics and CSIR National Eligibility Test for Physical Sciences

[@rikthecuber]

Tibees keep up this good work! Fan of mathematics :)

[@henrylj2660]

Wish I had thos books when I was younger and had more math exposure

[@RajeevVerma-su6hs]

Wow, that description of the Calculus book and realization "maybe I am not the only one who's been here" is very philosophical and powerful.

[@peterharris38]

I am always intregued by prodigies where the ability comes from and how the genius shines through. Like your work Tibees.

[@iamsyrex]

What is the picture of at 6:11 top right corner? Thanks in advance!

[@thatoneguyyoudontknow7242]

Nice video!

[@zorzeus]

I like your 'topic tendency'.

[@rib1576]

Hey tibees love your videos they have been helping me a lot. It would really help me if you could recommend books that have good theory and practice questions for topics permutations and combinations, coordinate geometry, sequence and series, trigonometry, quadratic equations(it would be okay if there are more extra topics in a book than these)

[@deepaks.m.6709]

Learning uni-level courses at age 8 depicts the motivation that Terence Tao had

[@vk2ig]

It also depicts a very good grasp of English language comprehension, too - look at the words he had to understand, and what they meant when formed into those sentences. E.g. 4:09!

[@ssvemuri]

Lovely shirt Teebs.

[@nzguy9336]

Hi Tibees are you from New Zealand?

[@eightmilesupwind9030]

No kidding. I read Flatland as well. I am so proud myself, that I read a book that Terence read at 8. Something to brag about!!

[@algotrader9054]

Terrence is undoubtedly very very talented, but exposing even above average children to more advanced topics would serve them well.

[@suekuan1540]

I find a lot of super bright people or prodigies of whatever, does have some genes passed down their parents. The guy who started Scale ( ai) for example, and guy who is a multi billionaire in crypto, and had super bright parents. My relative, a surgeon, also now had a son who is a surgeon, and so on.

[@leoliu7492]

"Even with the incentive of filming this video, I have probably spent more time on TikTok than I have reading these books over the past week." so true xD

[@billylee5624]

I'm going to attempt to solve the logical equation (a+b)^2/a+b or something along those lines that Terrance Tao had a problem with as a child and was obsessed for a little while. I did try but deleted the text, ah well. Oh flatland, how you thought you were seeing squares, circles etc in the xy plane trace but it was actually a wavy shaped floating fortress above or a tetrahedron or cone.

[@codekillerz5392]

(a+b)^2 / (a+b) is just (a+b) Rewrite: (a+b)(a+b) / (a+b) Denominator and one numerator must cancel, leaving us with (a+b)

[@anupamdebnath1884]

I wish there was a book like "Have A Beautiful Mathematical Day" by Tibees!

[@edwardmartin6052]

I think a young person having an interest in a subject can help. After all, children pick up language fairly quickly, an adult may not. This probably applies to subjects in general.

[@jasonchen2976]

What accent is this do you know? I want to learn this.

[@jamgormit7589]

My uncle gave me flatland when I was 11and it was kind of neat but just got too confusing early on. I read it again last year and while I'm kind of glad I didn't let some of the social ideas imprint on me at an earlyish age it was really cool and I still found a lot of it difficult to grasp. Can't believe an 8 year old could get past the first chapter

[@blinkbubs3994]

what kinda social ideas were in flatland?

[@cxffaye]

@@blinkbubs3994 ideas of social hierarchy/class and gender

[@egeturker3521]

Hi! I'd like you to look at the 2021 Turkey's university entrance exam YKS which has two parts TYT and AYT I hope you'll make video of you solving math questions of those exams but do not forget for TYT math questions your time is very limited

[@muhammadputera6593]

What does this have to do with Terence Tao?

[@egeturker3521]

@@muhammadputera6593 nothing she made many videos of solving different countries exams

[@pilopolo5957]

You're so calm 😂

[@scienceskills]

Ciao Tibees! You know, it would be very interesting to know who has transmitted this curiosity to Terence. Who and what must have influenced his interest. Studies suggest that phenomenal people, like Mozart, are profoundly influenced by a parent, a sister, or a brother who has instilled in them the seed of curiosity and passion. Feeling the taste produced by success, in turn, is what encourages them to move forward and trying more difficult challenges. Mozart, for instance, was influenced by his sister and the father Leopold. What about Terence? That would be interesting to know.

[@arahul4942]

Well his mum had a phd in mathematics, so i think she would probably be a sure influence on him,though he may have gotten inspired in other ways.

[@scienceskills]

@@arahul4942 Thanks Rahul for the comment. I didn't know that..So, you see? Science is right on this point. It is unavoidable: environmental influences are decisive for a child's future. Mozart himself became a great artist thanks to Maria Anna his sister and Leopold, the father who taught him everything. The history is full of such cases..

[@muhammadputera6593]

If you read the SMPY report on young Terence, you'll see a comment from his mom saying she doesn't tell him what to study, but rather asks him what he wants to learn next and buys books which he self studies. She's a great influence for sure.

[@scienceskills]

@@muhammadputera6593 Great account Muham. I will basically discuss the topics from a scientific point of view in my next v.ideos. If you rein.terested, give a loo at my chanel.

[@trinitarian100]

@@scienceskills Yes, but it can't be everything. Mozart's sister had the same advantages and training he did. She did not become a great composer.

[@sabthesarcastic]

please sit the iranian konkur known as one of the hardest exams out there similar to the gaokao

[@tiagocruz6307]

For calculus i like mengers book because it has less ambiguous definitions than most.. even thought its a very old book...

[@herambgavankar5159]

he also got a gold medal in IMO when he was 12-13yrs old

[@harveywilliams7013]

Spivak is by far the best book on calculus that I've ever read. 10/10 recommend.

[@gasun1274]

there should be a large experiment to determine the nurture nature (see what i did there) of geniuses. try to replicate the environment tao grew up in for many kids and see how their academic performance turn out.

[@LuisPerez-xc1yc]

What do you think about Cumon mathematics method

[@samuelfey4924]

he is brilliant, once I've heard that IQ is not enough tho creativity is more important

[@MrDevendraraju]

What is the best note takin app for iPad

[@nicolewitt4796]

idk about that author's reasoning in Flatland.... because if you REALLY think about it, lines are the building blocks for all of the shapes...no shapes would be possible without them, which idk seems pretty superior to me.

[@ahaanhalwai6739]

Oh and I read Shakespeare, computer science and astronomy books as a 10 year old and nobody talks about that

[@chronicpain4967]

because dont matter

[@sushinfudoshin8991]

They made a cartoon movie about "Flatland" I saw it few years ago. Great movie !!!

[@warrenrandall6936]

I saw it in 3D.