Math Prodigy Terence Tao, UCLA
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2008
- Terence Tao was a seven year-old high school student when he began taking calculus classes. By age 20 he had received a Ph.D. from Princeton and joined the UCLA faculty. In 2006 he won the Fields Medal in Mathematics and a MacArthur "genius" grant. Watch Tao talk about how he approaches problem-solving.
His brain works so fast his speech is lagging.Amazing.
thats what i thought too!
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he is addicted to numbers and mathematical symbols, he talks and thinks through a different language
Doing math is VERY collaborative, one person didn't just wake up one day and say this is math and we all just got it, it took centuries of building off wrong ideas to get the modern theories. So don't get discouraged when you struggle, instead remember what you are doing was created by groups of people just like you.
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Euler and Gauss disagree.
There are examples where individual mathematicians make a ton of developments almost in complete isolation e.g guass, Euler, Perelman, Andrew whiles (who spent 7 years in Solitude solving Fermat's last theorem)
It's one of those fields where both collaborative and individual efforts make a difference
he has humility, I love his smile
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oh do u know him personally?
mashallah
He got a 760 on the Math SATs at age 8.... half the seniors at my old high school couldn't even get 650
he has an IQ of 230 that's why.
yea that got me hyped. it means my math skills are probably better than anyone under the age of 9 in the world not to flex
is 760 good? whats the highest? i dont go live in america btw
@@smoothbrained4channer976 I got 760 and it told me I was in the top 1% of SAT test takers. I was then able to get a 790 but this was when I was 17 or 18 haha. The math section of the test is out of 800 and the average is probably around 530
650 is >80% percentile. That's pretty good.
I'm so glad that there are people of this caliber of intelligence on our little planet.
mashallah
Inshallah.
Alhamdullilah 🙌
My dad’s worked with this guy before, now I realize how much I’ve been underrating my dad. Always assumed he was just some average math professor.
You kidding me? I'd kill to have a well educated dad, especially someone who could help me with school work and especially math
no math professor is average if you see how many people hate and struggle with math
dude being a math professor is already a fucking huge achievement. If you know how many years they have to study, how competitive the academia field is, how much they have to know, how much they have to work to get there. Do note that the other competitors in your field aren't just your average joe in math, they are also super intelligent
@@murk959 eh, im a cs major with a dad who is a software engineer, mom who double majored in math and pretty much neither of them were ever able to help me with my work. Granted the apple doesnt fall far from the tree so i was always strong at math and cs anyway, but my mom didnt even remember derivatives having not used them since college and my dad has a pretty narrow scope
***Terry Tao jokes*** Just like Chuck Norris jokes
Terry Tao can divide by zero.
Terry Tao can pound any series into terrified convergence.
Terry Tao doesn't do mathematics, Terry Tao is mathematics.
Terry Tao decides whether or not P is the same as NP.
Terry Tao knows a consistent set of axioms capable of proving all truths about the relations of the natural numbers.
AND the BEST ONE:
Terry Tao can recite all the digits of pi... backwards.
And here you are, unable to even spell his last name correctly.
shtml54 Tao is an English name, now?
vincent10kd You got me. Check mate. Thanks for not swearing me. I'll get that changed.
shtml54 Cheers, feel free to remove my comments, your jokes were great otherwise and my initial comment wasn't made out of malevolence.
Terence Tao can disprove Godel's incompleteness theorem.
Terence Tao can solve a quintic using radicals.
Terry Tao knows what your credit card and social security numbers are.
Calculators use Terry Tao to make calculations, he doesn't use them.
Terry Tao can solve a Rubik's cube faster than you can pick your ass.
Terry Tao once took an IQ test: Mathematicians don't have a notation to quantify how high his score was.
Terry Tao knows your exact age and weight and knows you lied about them both.
Terry Tao isn't troubled by math problems. Math problems are troubled by him.
David Suspended i don't know about that.. i can pick my ass pretty fast.
+David Suspended Terry Tao knows the last digit of pi
Terry Tao can calculate how much porn you have on your computer and the mean and standard deviations of how long you beat off to it.
+David Suspended I just burst out laughing reading that last 2 lines.
+Darth Immortal stfu fucker
Terry Tao's dad father was my pediatrician when I was a kid!
thats cap
Wow
mashallah
xD
Just got rejected from UCLA.
+Barney The Niggasaur he deserves beteeeeeeeer
+Hichem Adam Wait..You changed his name lel... But stop being racist. (not really)
Terry Tao's intelligence is so high that it forms a singularity
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mashallah
Contrary to savants, this guy is a real mathematician.
Vous pouvez expliquer?
+Shenita Pramij En anglais, "savant" n'a pas le même sens qu'en français. Le terme anglais indique quelqu'un qui a une capacité hors du commun mais extremement spécialisée, comme par exemple savoir calculer de grands nombres dans sa tête. Or beaucoup de gens pensent naïvement qu'être mathématicien c'est savoir calculer. Pour eux quelqu'un comme Daniel Tannet est un grand mathématicien. Mais pour moi ce dernier ne l'est pas. Un mathématicien est quelqu'un qui fait avancer les mathématiques: il introduit de nouvelles techniques ou de nouveaux théorèmes.
Ah oui, je vois l'ambiguïté du terme. De fait, je ne connaissais pas la définition anglophone du mot. J'ai naïvement pensé que ce serait la même chose qu'en Français ha. Je suis d'accord sur le fait que savoir calculer ne fait pas de quiconque un mathématicien. C'est bien pour cela que Daniel Tammet est écrivain (si c'est bien de lui que vous parlez), et non mathématicien, bien que l'on ne puisse pas nier son intelligence. En revanche Terence Tao pourrait être classé parmi les savants. Comme vous l'avez dit, il a fait avancer les mathématiques et a encore beaucoup à faire, surtout après avoir eu son doctorat à 20 ans ha. En tout cas merci pour votre explication.
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But Terence tao does not possess any savant like skill. No point in comparing them.
The video runs faster than the original recording in order to emphasize the speed of thought of the prodigy.
It's so awesome to see someone enjoy something so much. He's good at math because he obviously really really loves math.
no its cuz his iq is high
he looks like a nerdy bruce lee
Hahahahahaa
Mat San stupent comment
Mat San yeah
Hess Bruce Lee alternative dimension version
Without muscles
I use to struggle in math until I really started trying. What has been working for me so far is: knowing how to solve every type of problem in the math course and most importantly learning all the terminology. If you don't know the terminology you will just be thinking in your head "add this thing, minus this thing" . When you know the terminology that means you really know what your doing.
He seems to be very humble for the man of his genius.
Fun fact: he is 40 years old.
WHAT THE FUCK
I think it's a joke 🙄
Facade oh lol
No, his brain is 40 years old
44 Now
Terry's ground breaking contribution to the new engineering field of compressed sensing is just amazing. He is not just a pure mathematician in number theory. A genius in different fields.
Amazing career, and life! Keep on truckin' professor Tao!
its people like him that propels mankind forward.
I always liked the quote: "Brilliance is 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration".
Professor Tao seems to be the rare person who is simply born with an innate ability to perform mathematics; i.e. he wasn't a "child prodigy" who became proficient in a subject simply by being pushed hard (though I'm sure he was strongly encouraged to pursue his natural abilities).
It's people like him that make me excited to study neuroscience. How are people simply born with such ability?
He's an amazing genius. More power to him to change the world.
Terence Tao , God bless you for ever !!!
You are my hero.
For me, mathematics is like discovering a secret cave full of beautiful treasures. I want to tell everyone I know about all the interesting things I've found, but nobody believes me unless they've taken the time to discover it for themselves.
And I'm here struggling with highschool calculus, damn it life you ain't fair.
this video puts a smile on my face
Thank you so for uploading!
He got a 760 on SATs at the age of 8. I still struggle with fractions, I'm 20.
you think that's bad, I struggle with volume and area of shapes.
Ahem ! Child prodigy !!
idk why this is considered an accomplishment. tbh if I get only 760 on SAT math at 8 i'd kill myself
李子翀 u probably got 2 at 8
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Oh my god I feel so useless😭😭but this guy is super awesome
You're pretty
@@blue1991dbes You forgot to add *atleast
Я восторгаюсь такой талантливой личностью Тао который живет с любовью к своей профессии имеет больших заслуг с раннего возраста . Мозг работает в пользу человечества !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Браво!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We need more of Terry Tao on Numberphile, I would listen to him for hours.
A Ph.D at age 21?! WOW. I actually have a picture of Tao in my room, he's one of my favorite Mathematicians besides John Nash
Me too
whats his max bench?
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Chin-Lok LI wow.. you wanted to be funny but failed miserably
His mental bench is higher than yours, how does it feel?
@@samuelr2969 not even higher, it would likely double him up even if he was smart. more than likely terry is tripling or quadrupling this brainlet up.
@@DaiLoDong The difference is that Terry didn't earn his intelligence. He was born with it. He became a genius through blind luck. Everyone who works out has to earn it. No one is born with a muscular body.
@rlinfinity
yes, and when difficult problems (sometimes not so difficult problems) come up, we just defer them to the computer. The math part of course is just used to select the right model to simulate and choose the most reasonable parameter. (which could mean the different between a simulation that took hours and give the wrong answer and one that took only minutes and give the correct one)
In my world, the words "Math Prodigy" and "Terence" are light years apart!
And I'm here using fingers to add 2 and 2.
+Dipesh Bhandari I use the calculator to add 2 and 2 lol
+Canon5DMii I ask someone else to use the calculator for me to add 2 and 2!
I searched on google to find the answer.
yeah calculator is better, fingers get confusing. I forget which finger I was on last and have to start over.
Wait, what's 2?
Wow at age 21 he had a PHD degree, and I am still stuck doing minor calculas problems.
Err.... yeah, isnt that entire point of him being a prodigy?
He's literally like a character from Marvel or DC comics.
Pfft. That's nothing, son..... I still struggle on doing adding in my head.
You're stuck at spelling 'calculus' right as well.
Your a genius..... Able to state a sequence that never ends
Wow. He's an inspiration. I need to study harder.
I never get my graphs correct.
Help me Tao.
Sometimes i wish i could stop commenting on videos. Even the most innocent one attract weird people
Asking a prodigy to help you out because you never get them correct is very innocent. I get that. But you know how stupid that sounds? He's got way better things to do, go ask your teacher
Johnny Manila boohoo. he will not help me, really?
im so sad. :)
Now you'll comment back something rude, because you're annoyed i decided to joke on a math geniuss video.
:)
I can hear your heart pounding of anger. lol.
Johnny Manila I hope you are not like this in real life.
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I really envy Dr. Perelman and Dr. Tao. I wish to have a half of
their minds, in fact I'm willing to give my arms for that cause. I can study and study, nights and nights awoken, but I never will reach even close to their minds. It's frustrating, the world is really unfair.
Do your best with what you already have my friend.
@@MathSocrate The best advice for everyone - you were dealt your hand, now play it
good for him. he has achieved a lot.
This guy is isn't really considered a math prodigy in my eyes...but that me and him share the enormous passion for mathematics
I still struggle to count with my toes
It would be easier if you remove your shoes and socks first!
Such a lovely person as well! God's gift to humanity!
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I’m watching this only to see if this guy turned out as a balanced individual. He is very lucky he has not developed anti social behavior ... etc. I’m proud of this guy. He is google news under science... he won an award from Spain ..
What a beautiful video!!!
It is not merely the matter of "study harder", it is matter of ingenuity, Intellectual giftedness.
"He got a 760 on the Math SAT..."
Me: "Wow I got a 770, I guess I'm a genius."
Literally a quarter second later: "At age 8."
Me: "nvm"
I agree with malwint. This man is a prodigy who has given a lot to society. For example, just recently, he made important contributions to (essentially re-discovered) a field called compressed sensing which will one day allow you to have everything from faster MRI scans to more reliable and quicker cell phone communication systems.
I was in a pub in Donegal Town discussing the efficacy of the Black-Scholes formula with my niece's husband (he's a maths professor) and I suggested that there was far too much reliance placed on The Gaussian Normal Distribution Curve in the B-S. formula and he was on about The Central Limit Theorem (a precursor of the above curve; with which I have no trouble) and when I pointed out the obvious flaws in that distribution without even a blush he suggested using another distribution curve so sad
His mouth can't keep up with what he's saying lol
I'm really interested in what his spiritual beliefs are
spare us
Terence Tau is a ROCK STAR!!!
Yes, second to Cal in the public UC system. You could group UCLA and Cal with Stanford, MIT, CIT, Harvard, etc.
Music is very annoying n too loud..
He seems so well adjusted. It appears that many "geniuses" are so wrapped up in themselves and act like anti-social weirdos. He's a credit to his family no doubt.
He writes his own name on the blackboard when he talks about a theorem, it must feel nice
Terence Tao is Exceptionally Gifted.
3 of my Favourite Intellectuals, -
Carl Sagan ( 1934 - 1996 )
Rowan Williams ( b.1950 ) - I am not religious!
Lucy Worsley ( b.1973 )
now i wanna go to ucla just so he can be my teacher hahahaa
Makai Baker I know this is an old af comment but he doesn’t teach undergrad, only graduate students and it’s just a couple classes. I have seen him walking around in the math sciences building tho!
@Maidhros You are not alone; i can study and study and seem to forget what I studied-- so many times!!!
gell-mann murrey got his phd before 21 and lagrange was professor at 19 and director of maths section of berlin academy at 30.
thank god, he's not in banking
@Harry Smith Because nearly all of them are incompetent.
When a math problem sees Terence Tao it will be like 😱🤬😰 there he comes
@Cervy18 sorry, i think i am confusing everyone...what i'm trying to say is that this notation -1 < r < 1 ( at first glance, think of people being exposed to the understanding of domains for the first time) is chosen unnecessarily confusing, because you read it " minus one is smaller then r and r is smaller than positive one) which , in general is not what you would want to notify in the first place, right.? You generally in most cases want to state that the "r" is bounded by -1 and by 1.
Miracles will be there always.
i would beat him @ cs:go
naw he knows math he probably knows everything about physics and stuff
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i will still beat him with one hand behind my back
Naw dude he has like artificial intelligence he will know everything
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you're an idiot. how old are you?
older than you think
The Chinese Sheldon Cooper
Yeah and probably actually funny.
Why does there always have to be music in the background, that drowns out the most important bits. Some people would also like to hear what is said.. -.-
clever person.
good for him.
i'm still doing my masters in physics & i'm 29.
whats funny i still cant understand what these mathematicians trying to teach us,,,
logic desi If you still can't understand what they're trying to teach you then there's nothing they can teach you.
Fawk Yu People like you are the reason the education system is broken.
Funny you ask.
I would understand why you would say this. The earliest of mathematics were intended to solve real-world problems. Back in ancient greeks, they invented geometry to calculate things like distance, area, volumes, etc...It wasn't until a mathematician named Euclid who put forth a set of axioms. Axioms are kinda like self-evident truths. Euclid thus deduced from those axioms a lot of pretty interesting results. Even though most of what he proved in his book, Elements, were plainly obvious facts, like two circles having a congruent centre and congruent radii are congruent, it did give us important theorem like Pythagoras, Thales's theorem,etc...
Today maths is extremely abstract compared to the maths before the 19th century, they developed such areas as geometry in n dimensions, projective geometry, affine geometry.
Despite all that, mathematics still serves its main purpose being a great tool for scientists and engineer.
The Universe is Infinite Infinity and Beyond.
humans' primitive inadequate hopeless incompetent "poor knowledge" of one second is defined as the time it takes for the cesium frequency to oscillate 9,192,631,770 times or 1sec./9192631 and as its huge and absolute consequence, whatever formulas and or equations and or theorems and or theories and or assumptions these physicists and or mathematicians use and or will use will never result in accuracy.
0.999999999 and 1 are not equal
1.510181016 and 1.5101810169987618898799666109971543344895666.... to infinity are very very different.
for these mathematicians to say that 0.999999999 is equal to 1 would be the same as albert einstein displayed 1 using his forefinger in front of your face and ask you: how many? you would surely say 1, but einstein would say, you are wrong. follow my instructions. focus your left eye to the right. focus your right eye to the left. shake your head 6 times...and einstein asks again how many? you would probably say 3... einstein would say you stupid! you did not shake your head strong enough! the correct answer is 2! and surely you would believe him because he is einstein....
einstein would say: very well. go and teach math. tell them it is the language of the universe.
I never understood why we praise people who were born with innate talent instead of earning their skill... This guy never had to toil, he had it made in mathematics. Also prodigies are often downright useless in any other field. I have much more respect for your average joe who becomes a mathematical whiz through effort than some guy who was practically born amazing.
.
You think everything comes easy to him? That he hardly has to make any effort? You are very wrong. Even though he's very intelligent he still works his ass off. No one is born amazing. These people with innate talent we admire so much push our species forward, because not only are they talented, they are extremely hard working and curious. They see patterns where the rest of us see noise. Check out his article terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/work-hard/
That is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard in my entire life. We don't praise prodigies for having talent; we praise them for making significant, groundbreaking contributions to human knowledge. What is a "math wiz" to you? Are mathematicians just circus performers who train hard to impress the world? Carl Friedrich Gauss was a prodigy who made significant contributions to math and physics. Should we just lay him aside because he was born talented? Secondly, your argument that Terence Tao never had to toil with math is makes my brain cells wither and die. Mathematicians ALWAYS have to toil with math. Mathematicians don't take timed tests given by some vague authority figure. Mathematicians have to expand the field of mathematics, and no matter how smart you are, it will never come easy. Every question a mathematician answers will lead to 10 new ones. Terence Tao works tirelessly to not only resolve long-unsolved problems in number theory such as the twin prime conjecture, he has already made significant contributions to the fields he has worked in, alongside helping develop a technique called "compressed sensing," which you should totally look up before you say something else completely stupid. And finally, Terence Tao is not an idiot savant. He doesn't "suck at everything else." Just look at his blog. He is a fantastic expositor of his work.
BOOHOOOO SOMEONE IS JELLY :^)
sQuare Of course I'm jealous, I could make a killing on the market with this guys math talent.... but again my point is he didn't earn it, at least not the same way as others in the field might.
Australia loves you Terry!
he came in to teach eigenvalues during my math 115A class at UCLA 2008
He should apply his intelligence to some real life problems like Elon Musk does, he may not be a prodigy but he is changing the world in a good way, he is a real life hero.
It would be a huge loss to humanity if Tao suddenly became a businessman like Musk (even though Musk does some great things). It seems like you don't realize it, so just take my word for it that developing pure mathematics and theoretical physics is one of the most difficult tasks in existence and one of the most important ones as well. Tao should be doing exactly what he is doing; pure math, because there are only a few people in the world that could do what he does. Having him do anything else other than mathematics would be an incredible loss to humanity... Just imagine where we would be if Gauss or Dirac became engineers and businessmen instead of mathematicians and theoretical physicists...
lol didn't know that, it makes sense knowing most of nerdy guys encounter their wife at college(coming from a scarcity mindset). But who cares right? Just wanna know what if appart from mind training which is what he usually does everyday, he could open a window to enjoy activities like excercise or meditation where he could train his body and mind as well.
Sebastián Jácome I've seen him in person at department picnics playing with his kids (soccer or frisbie). He's just a normal guy. =)
But I'm sure whatever going through his mind when he's playing soccer would be a million times more intelligent than most people at their most focused moments...
one engineer is easily replacable, Terry Tao is far from easily replacable
The Universe is Infinite Infinity and Beyond.
humans' primitive inadequate hopeless incompetent "poor knowledge" of one second is defined as the time it takes for the cesium frequency to oscillate 9,192,631,770 times or 1sec./9192631 and as its huge and absolute consequence, whatever formulas and or equations and or theorems and or theories and or assumptions these physicists and or mathematicians use and or will use will never result in accuracy.
0.999999999 and 1 are not equal
1.510181016 and 1.5101810169987618898799666109971543344895666.... to infinity are very very different.
for these mathematicians to say that 0.999999999 is equal to 1 would be the same as albert einstein displayed 1 using his forefinger in front of your face and ask you: how many? you would surely say 1, but einstein would say, you are wrong. follow my instructions. focus your left eye to the right. focus your right eye to the left. shake your head 6 times...and einstein asks again how many? you would probably say 3... einstein would say you stupid! you did not shake your head strong enough! the correct answer is 2! and surely you would believe him because he is einstein....
einstein would say: very well. go and teach math. tell them it is the language of the universe.
Wow the description took off a year from what the video says. He began taking calculus at 8 and he got his PhD at 21 lol
why there are chaotic gaps between prime numbers?
why there aren't have any rules?
Terence Tao is my twin prime! We both are child prodigies!
this is tight man. I wanna see what classes he teaches
I spent plenty of time in the math science building there. It wasn't easy. One thing that sticks in my memory was that Hector Fattorinis office was filled with hats.
why the second guy(count from the right) in the first row raised his middle finger in 0:57?
to be smart is not enough ...hardworking is good solution for success
Terrence Tao is the greatest living Mathematician.,,
This guy is also a genius in math because his right lobe and the logical part of it developed faster, and is more developed, than the rest of us.
Terence Tao un matemático con una destreza única en lo oculto y en los números del misticismo .
Fermat's last Theorem is the Transformer Bumblebee Robot.
Using the formula z^3=[z(z+1)/2]^2 - [z(z-1)/2]^2 to convert z^3 become the exponent 2. Then using the formula [z(z+1)/2]^2=1^3+2^3+........+z^3 to convert the exponent 2 become the exponent 3.
Repeated several times with the same method.
The Transformer Bumblebee Robot was created according to your structure.
This is my simplest format of theTransformer Bumblebee Robot .
Original equation:
z^3=x^3+y^3.
Using two formulas:
z^3=[z(z+1)/2]^2 - [z(z-1)/2]^2
And define x
I'd like to hear what Mr. Tao thinks about the Poincare recurrence.
@DartmouthAlum96 what's trim?
What is the name of the background song
Terence Tao is every Man's hero.
plz tell me name of music in background ???
We are so alike, he and I.
can tell me your earlyest memories
Which background song is this ?
Someone tell me how dividing by the square root of q, will help cure cancer, or feed the hungry.
We all have a Terence Tao in our computers solving millions of calculations per second.
I was finished high school by age 13.
I have mild autism.
Because I am autistic, I am awful at math.
I can't tie my shoes or understand the concept of time.
But I can also memorize novels from start to finish, word by word.
I wish I could grasp math.
I spend my time memorizing words in other languages. I can speak 11 languages, but i can't even to begin to understand prime numbers.
Should I discredit my second grade I.Q. score on that or any premise?