An Interview with Terence Tao

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024

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  • @pentwl
    @pentwl 3 года назад +88

    Timestamps and Questions:
    00:14 What first drew you to math?
    01:36 To whom do you owe your math talent? (Who influenced you to do math?)
    02:40 As a teenager, what did you want to do as a career?
    03:58 What advice would you give to students who are interested in STEM?
    05:22 What is the coolest thing you learned in math?
    07:04 What is one thing nobody knows about your relationship in math?
    09:35 What topic do you dislike in math?
    11:13 What is the broad overview of your work? (What area of math do you focus on?)
    13:06 What is your favorite movie or TV show?
    14:56 Do you help your kids with math homework?
    16:01 Do you connect with people through social media?
    16:57 What do you do in your free time?
    17:26 Can you speak a little Spanish for us?
    Although Terence Tao has inherent talent in math, I appreciate the fact he shared that he has trouble with math as much as anyone.
    This was a great interview; it was refreshing to see the more human side of Professor Tao instead of the mathematical genius he is.

    • @malachiraymond485
      @malachiraymond485 3 года назад

      I dont mean to be so off topic but does anyone know a tool to log back into an instagram account..?
      I was stupid lost the account password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me!

  • @SalesforceUSA
    @SalesforceUSA 3 года назад +91

    Tao is a very good communicator. Modest, fluent, responsive, considered, honest, and humorous. Very good person, a great scholar and a gentleman to the core.

  • @ApePostle
    @ApePostle 3 года назад +122

    I had dinner with professor Tao few years back (he was a visiting professor and the math department organised a small group dinner). Hands down one of the most humble nicest people in the field! He seemed shy and no ego despite all the success and accomplishments

  • @UnknownSend3r
    @UnknownSend3r 3 года назад +37

    It's insane how humble he is, I think this is the first time watching a genuine genius on RUclips.

  • @scoutmathematics
    @scoutmathematics 2 года назад +13

    I was fortunate to attend his complex analysis online classes, which during the pandemic was open for non-UCLA students as well. His lessons had deep impact on me. I also followed up with him on an ambitious list of things to study, and I am still in the phase of self-learning many of these things. He is one of the best persons I have ever interacted with, he knows the mindset of students very well, he inspires you to think about mathematics, and he is very meticulous, humble and even in some cases approachable (I have found myself sometimes totally stuck while studying something and then asking him via an email or by posting a question on his weblog, always attracts his attention and he replies in a way that clears the doubt and more importantly offers better insights).
    If I ever do well as a mathematician, Professor Tao will be one of the reasons behind it.

  • @IQSD-zs6qn
    @IQSD-zs6qn 3 года назад +22

    He is such a fluent communicator. He answers so quickly but very accurate.

  • @DERIVATIVES-mh6ej
    @DERIVATIVES-mh6ej 5 месяцев назад +3

    I think it's cute that the most replayed section is at the beginning of the section about him helping his kids with homework.

  • @MagnusAnand
    @MagnusAnand 3 года назад +23

    It’s always a pleasure to listen to Dr. Tao

  • @gonzalezm244
    @gonzalezm244 3 года назад +31

    I’ve run into Dr. Tao once or twice at university, I was a bit star struck when it happened 😂

    • @MrHirenP
      @MrHirenP 3 года назад +10

      Well, maybe next time watch where you going 😂

    • @parvdize3968
      @parvdize3968 3 года назад

      so cool bro,what college you going?

    • @gonzalezm244
      @gonzalezm244 3 года назад +2

      @@parvdize3968 Ucla, which makes this situation far more probable lol

    • @kawosdhdos
      @kawosdhdos 3 года назад

      @@MrHirenP LMAO

  • @ArpanD
    @ArpanD 3 года назад +31

    Keep it up, YSJ. You're doing a great job communicating STEM and also publishing research papers of young students. Loved this interview, absolutely!!

  • @flotfyr1234
    @flotfyr1234 3 года назад +7

    i could listen to this mans analogies all day!

  • @rijubhatt8366
    @rijubhatt8366 3 года назад +25

    Recently he reached a breakthrough in the Collatz Conjecture. 👍

    • @legendarynoob6732
      @legendarynoob6732 3 года назад +4

      He got close.But nowhere near solving it.

    • @clockfixer5049
      @clockfixer5049 4 месяца назад

      @@legendarynoob6732does it matter lol

  • @tune_fisch0269
    @tune_fisch0269 3 года назад +11

    I love how Dr Tao slowly goes from being in the center of the frame to the bottom right

  • @sagarbhattarai8161
    @sagarbhattarai8161 2 года назад +4

    Genius doesn't only depend upon your innate intellectual ability but also the environment you are brought up in, all the experiences you've had. It's also a result of teamwork because you can't do it alone.

  • @monkerud2108
    @monkerud2108 3 года назад +3

    Didnt see this one until now, Terrence is such a great guy.

  • @ahmedayesh3728
    @ahmedayesh3728 3 года назад +8

    it is a very nice talk. I appreciate choosing questions

  • @patrickwhite8144
    @patrickwhite8144 10 месяцев назад +2

    It's interesting that superficially he doesn't conform to the naive idea of what a really intelligent person sounds like. He speaks with clarity and precision but there's nothing flamboyant about his speech. If I got talking to him somewhere and didn't know who he was I wouldn't walk away from the conversation thinking that I had just spoken to one of the smartest men in the world. It makes me think that seeming-intelligent is mostly a type of performance.

  • @physicsforever4793
    @physicsforever4793 3 года назад +100

    Nice! Getting Terrence Tao for an interview is difficult.

    • @hhhhhhhh6008
      @hhhhhhhh6008 3 года назад +3

      How do you know

    • @physicsforever4793
      @physicsforever4793 3 года назад +8

      @@hhhhhhhh6008 bcoz I do podcasts. I tried to get him, but couldn't.

    • @hhhhhhhh6008
      @hhhhhhhh6008 3 года назад +6

      @@physicsforever4793 well yes in that sense it’s hard to get him because you can’t be that well associated with him. Therefore you don’t know for sure if he will participate in an interview with someone he could interact with.

    • @hhhhhhhh6008
      @hhhhhhhh6008 3 года назад +2

      @@physicsforever4793 thats what i said

    • @physicsforever4793
      @physicsforever4793 3 года назад +3

      @@hhhhhhhh6008 yeah, sorry. I understood it in a different way.

  • @abbyt6136
    @abbyt6136 3 года назад +5

    Dr Tao is surely amazing, but the teenage interviewer did a good job in this interview too. She didn’t interrupt too much and gave appropriate responses

  • @mrnarason
    @mrnarason 3 года назад +79

    Her questions were very generic and unmotivated. Surprised Tao was able to keep up being not seeming bored. Rather him appear on the numberphile podcast or something

    • @karan4624
      @karan4624 3 года назад +1

      Exactly

    • @codyfan4070
      @codyfan4070 3 года назад +1

      Everything from minute 3 or so onwards I think we’re good. Before then seemed like icebreakers

    • @bournejason66
      @bournejason66 3 года назад +3

      I like her questions actually. Maybe she didn’t ask him his favorite color that you like to know?😆

    • @aayansh3919
      @aayansh3919 3 года назад

      @@bournejason66 LMFAO!!

    • @leonmareno4599
      @leonmareno4599 3 года назад +2

      @@bournejason66 Hi. i like her questionss too. But she cut him and he has so much to tell. check just before 07:00 when he s speaking about zero and the influense of the concept on a society/ human mind. etc. He just finish with a "sad" yeah. I understand she had prepared the interview, make a plan, and had to respect the lengh.
      This man has so much to tell, and so few people can know what he may thinks about ( i m not one of them :) )

  • @jlsmatejuanluisramirez
    @jlsmatejuanluisramirez 3 года назад +3

    Es excelente que Terence Tao estudie español. Excelent interview

  • @mu.makbarzadeh2831
    @mu.makbarzadeh2831 3 года назад +5

    Many thanks for this great interview!

  • @black_jack_meghav
    @black_jack_meghav 3 года назад +3

    Thanks, i love professor tao

  • @ashishsaxena3521
    @ashishsaxena3521 3 года назад +10

    Whenever I listen him....just wow

    • @hhhhhhhh6008
      @hhhhhhhh6008 3 года назад

      Nothing that great, he doesn’t seem that good at creative/divergent thinking from the point of view of this interview

    • @david50665
      @david50665 3 года назад +4

      @@hhhhhhhh6008 His IQ is probably pretty low as well compared to yours if I were to guess, not to mention you seem to have much more creativity compared to him...he's probably a copycat

    • @hhhhhhhh6008
      @hhhhhhhh6008 3 года назад

      @@david50665your very confused lmao!

    • @david50665
      @david50665 3 года назад +4

      @@hhhhhhhh6008 stop it with your false modesty

    • @hhhhhhhh6008
      @hhhhhhhh6008 3 года назад

      @@david50665 never, will you elicit where I waswrong in my first comment, or else your just a troll!

  • @SalesforceUSA
    @SalesforceUSA 3 года назад +18

    Terence Tao is the best living mathematician in the world.
    His Brain at 3000 Hz, Mouth at 60 Hz, A Genius ,,,,

    • @Therizinosaurus
      @Therizinosaurus 3 года назад +7

      And your comment is unoriginal, copied from other user's comment

  • @БубликПомидорович
    @БубликПомидорович 3 года назад +6

    Pair Tao + Perelman would be such a great duet!

    • @darthmath1071
      @darthmath1071 3 года назад +1

      lmao Perelman wants to be left alone. He even quit math.

    • @raphaelkelly861
      @raphaelkelly861 3 года назад

      Might as well throw in the Pope while you're at it!

  • @tahatariq2424
    @tahatariq2424 3 года назад +18

    Great interview!

  • @user-zj8cf3fq8e
    @user-zj8cf3fq8e 3 года назад +1

    Wow!,.... Such a considerate person.

  • @namrtasharma9607
    @namrtasharma9607 3 года назад +8

    Great work!!

  • @companyowner111
    @companyowner111 3 года назад +1

    I want to know if his genius has helped, hurt or had no impact on his social skills?

  • @rubbersidedown7992
    @rubbersidedown7992 2 года назад +1

    Hey! Try 1 with Akshay Venkatesh Pls

  • @bournejason66
    @bournejason66 3 года назад +4

    Great interview. Keep it up.

  • @patrickn_ss
    @patrickn_ss 3 года назад +2

    /Adoraria conversar com Terence Tao.

  • @尾崎元恒
    @尾崎元恒 3 года назад +5

    私は数学者になりたいということに気付きました。代数学の勉強をしていきます。

    • @methandtopology
      @methandtopology Год назад +1

      今はどうなっているんですか?勉強は順調?

  • @gsuthan
    @gsuthan 2 месяца назад

    great questions !

  • @robroberts1473
    @robroberts1473 3 года назад +2

    Tao likes galaxy quest, genius confirmed. 😊

  • @jnk3775
    @jnk3775 3 года назад +3

    Great job.

  • @MichaelLopez-nc3xz
    @MichaelLopez-nc3xz Год назад

    His a real special man☆ very very special FAMILY ...☆☆☆♡

  • @RSLT
    @RSLT 4 месяца назад

    GREAT VIDEO! Liked and subscribed ❤

  • @HiltonFernandes
    @HiltonFernandes 3 года назад +5

    A great interview. Thank you.

  • @thetruth7105
    @thetruth7105 3 года назад +7

    Hi it’s my question. I’ve visited psychiatrist and get my depression and memory medicine. But I still can’t do math. Is it genetic or should I leave my dream to become engineer? Also should I visit geneticist or neurologist to see, what my talent is.

    • @steroidscarab
      @steroidscarab 3 года назад +1

      Some people are just innately worse at maths than others. You may have something called dyscalculia, you should search it on google and see whether it's TRUE for

    • @thetruth7105
      @thetruth7105 3 года назад

      the prankster gangster so, I can never be good at maths. My dreams is to make artificial robots.

    • @kaikaisen2155
      @kaikaisen2155 3 года назад +1

      @@thetruth7105 go to khan academy and practice 1/2 hour every day

    • @steroidscarab
      @steroidscarab 3 года назад +5

      @@thetruth7105 if you can add, subtract, divide, multiply and work with fractions, you dont have dyscalculia. It's quite rare. If you have problems with stuff like calculus or algebra a lot of others do too, practice and perseverance will be important to be a successful engineer

    • @thetruth7105
      @thetruth7105 3 года назад +1

      the prankster gangster i can add and subtraction, but doing math in my mind is hard. Also I can’t do arithmetic.

  • @rayrocher6887
    @rayrocher6887 Год назад +2

    Thanks Dr Tao

  • @iliaskurku
    @iliaskurku 3 года назад +2

    You are a good teacher, Tao ㄷ:
    And you are a very good interviewer ㅜ

  • @jimjimakos1101
    @jimjimakos1101 2 года назад +1

    Hello my friend terence tao have a great day big mathematical

  • @ernstboyd8745
    @ernstboyd8745 3 года назад +3

    His initials TT kinda looks like Pi

  • @samyakumarray5464
    @samyakumarray5464 3 года назад +10

    Is this an Indian journal?

  • @Z3r0XoL
    @Z3r0XoL 3 года назад +2

    couldnt you have asked any deeper questions

    • @hhhhhhhh6008
      @hhhhhhhh6008 2 года назад

      Who gives a fuck you shouldn't care bout nothin fam

  • @aigeanthokchom3797
    @aigeanthokchom3797 3 года назад +3

    Hit like if you want manjul bhargava for the interview

  • @randomfullywonderful
    @randomfullywonderful 2 года назад

    His Aussie friends call him Tezza! 😆

  • @Simon-xi8tb
    @Simon-xi8tb 3 года назад +2

    is math related to science ?

    • @jernyx9139
      @jernyx9139 3 года назад +1

      no

    • @flynncowell4064
      @flynncowell4064 3 года назад

      Yes.

    • @black_jack_meghav
      @black_jack_meghav 3 года назад

      Of course

    • @Simon-xi8tb
      @Simon-xi8tb 3 года назад

      To all you nerds who gave me a straight answer here. I give you the ultimate "swooooosh". ruclips.net/video/VbUoaBJd2sA/видео.html

  • @Smart_Soham
    @Smart_Soham 11 месяцев назад

    Hey guys, I have a theory
    According to my theory, each and every universe has a parallel universe in which each and everything us appeared starting from the back
    How do like my theory??

  • @physicswizard8481
    @physicswizard8481 2 года назад

    Does he follow cricket?

  • @Wellraim
    @Wellraim 3 года назад +1

    O maior matemática vivo.

  • @taresy6789pp
    @taresy6789pp 3 года назад +1

    i challenge terence tao to maths test lol E=MC2 LOL

  • @麦德辉
    @麦德辉 3 года назад +2

    I think tao is tired of these questions。

  • @incarnationhasit
    @incarnationhasit 3 года назад +4

    I wanna see this dude play minecraft

  • @gauravchoudhary2080
    @gauravchoudhary2080 3 года назад +1

    The asian kid

  • @hhhhhhhh6008
    @hhhhhhhh6008 2 года назад

    The Asian kid

  • @rayrocher6887
    @rayrocher6887 Год назад +1

    Great guy, nice genius, good for the future

  • @bhanupriya.sbhanupriya1787
    @bhanupriya.sbhanupriya1787 3 года назад +1

    I can't understand a thing

  • @laramauss1968
    @laramauss1968 2 года назад

    oh he is handsome. Most huge talents are not so handsome 😅

  • @MrZzzjjj
    @MrZzzjjj 3 года назад +5

    Terence Tao's biggest achievement is not in mathematics but in having the world's largest nostrils.

    • @Brandon-si8dl
      @Brandon-si8dl 2 года назад

      look at that ugly big nostrilled manjul Bhargava, manjul Bhargava's big nostrils are more larger.

  • @aslanmansurov2466
    @aslanmansurov2466 3 года назад +6

    She is such a horrible interviewer

    • @jexyl8071
      @jexyl8071 2 года назад +1

      "Oh wow that's interesting. Moving on"
      I cringed so hard just listening to the transitions lol

  • @Burzurk1987
    @Burzurk1987 2 года назад +1

    What a GEEK! His parents FORCED math on him practically from birth. They try to make it sound like he is so special that he would pick up a calculus book and read it all on his own initiative.

  • @alishirvani9525
    @alishirvani9525 2 года назад

    The interviewer is horrible. Always interrupting and cutting him off, jumping immediately to the next question, and nonstop “mhms” and yeahs”. Loved Terry’s responses though, I wish we were able to hear everything else he had to say, but unfortunately, he got interrupted every single fucking time

  • @michaelwilson2419
    @michaelwilson2419 3 года назад

    This guy is so arrogant it is very disgusting. Too bad he never learned humility or compassion for others.

    • @jnk3775
      @jnk3775 3 года назад +1

      No, never say something negative...

    • @kyleroberts162
      @kyleroberts162 3 года назад +24

      But you don't even know him 😂

    • @kyleroberts162
      @kyleroberts162 3 года назад +1

      Alright alright he isn't very in-depth in his open conversations like this here and his stuff are usually completely impossible to understand but... It sounds like you know him personally as if you have eyes in his head 🧐🤨😤.

    • @mashmax98
      @mashmax98 3 года назад +20

      Awww are you jealous of his success?

    • @rohitmadashri7250
      @rohitmadashri7250 3 года назад +3

      Kind sir, you're in a wrong lane. Why don't just watch Donald Trump on Fox News and get off? Trump is the epitome of humility and perfect for people like. Please vote for him in 2024.

  • @Abhisruta
    @Abhisruta 3 года назад +4

    Great work!