UCLA Video Spotlight - Profile of Terry Tao

[@TravelWorld1]

Terence Tao is the greatest living Mathematician.

[@vjpillay]

I think if i remember right one girl of age 12 or so got a maths degree at oxford university .She hardly attended school but educated by her father .Ramanujan during colonial days did maths all his life with no support in in india never got a success at university until G H Hardy spotted his talent. I wish I had support from young like present day generation.

[@kakashi1992e]

wow. What a intriguing person/life.

[@BRAKIMOT]

great teao, the best

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@MathMikie]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@jpredsox25]

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

[@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.

[@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?