Fun fact about Terence Tao: when getting his PhD, he almost failed his “general” exam, which is the most important test of your PhD. If you fail the generals you get kicked out. He was in his early 20’s at the time and expected the test to be way easier than it was so he studied pretty lightly and spent a lot of time, I kid you not, staying up late playing video games.

Even the smartest mathematician in the world once almost failed a test because he wanted to play video games.

His brain seems to be processing faster than his mouth can speak.

I love how mathematicians are honorable and always mention the names of those who found the formulas and such.

Prof. Tao once walked to my linear algebra class on the first day of school thinking that he is supposed to teach that class. He actually had prepared a syllabus not knowing that it was not his class.  The look on his face was priceless when the actual professor walked in.  Later I took a PDE class with him.  He is brilliant teacher.  He loves math and teaching math and he doesn't do it for the money

I did some Maths subjects with him at university - I was 19 he was 12. He had a 150% workload and he blitzed them all.

His Brain: 240 fps
His mouth: 60Hz

Yeah, but can he make a calculator say 'boobies'?

It's interesting hearing someone speak a different language using the same words that I use.

Imagine the person who can understand Terry Tao at 2x 💀

I finished this video without understanding a single sentence. In fact, i dont even remember anything he have just said.

Thumbs up, good video.

Einstein: "Nothing in the universe can be faster than light."
Tao: "Hold my brain."

Teacher : Terry, stop talking in the class, do you want to come and teach them ?
Terry : Hold my beer 🍺

I laughed along with them at 4:51 so I can seem smart

This guy is teaching his teachers lol

All I got was that the floor is probably uneven 😂

21:03 I actually laughed there. No joke.

His mouth isnt fast enough for all his thoughts...

2 minutes into this lecture and you start to realize that he’s literally on another level.

Years ago when I was a graduate student visiting UCLA. I sat in one of his PDE seminar. I am deeply shocked by the intuition he demonstrated in that one-hour talk. That is the difference between fields medalist and ordinary smart people.

What does the drowning number theorist say?



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