Terence Tao: The Mozart of Maths
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- Terry Tao recalls the day his aunt found him rolling around her living room floor in Melbourne with his eyes closed. He was about 23. He was trying to visualise a “mathematical transform”. “I was pretending I was the thing being transformed; it did work actually, I got some intuition from doing that.” His aunt is likely still puzzled. “Sometimes to understand something you just use whatever tools you have available.” (View Highlight)
- The extraordinary and the ordinary can co-exist: the world’s smartest man is responsible for the morning school run. “I have to drop William off at eight o’clock.” His son is 11. He’s learning piano, guitar and clarinet. One day he was scouted by a talent agency in a mall - “We like his face”, they said - and he has appeared in commercials for Ford and Disney. (View Highlight)
Terence Tao: The Mozart of Maths
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Highlights
- Terry Tao recalls the day his aunt found him rolling around her living room floor in Melbourne with his eyes closed. He was about 23. He was trying to visualise a “mathematical transform”. “I was pretending I was the thing being transformed; it did work actually, I got some intuition from doing that.” His aunt is likely still puzzled. “Sometimes to understand something you just use whatever tools you have available.” (View Highlight)
- The extraordinary and the ordinary can co-exist: the world’s smartest man is responsible for the morning school run. “I have to drop William off at eight o’clock.” His son is 11. He’s learning piano, guitar and clarinet. One day he was scouted by a talent agency in a mall - “We like his face”, they said - and he has appeared in commercials for Ford and Disney. (View Highlight)