We have Fields medalist Terence Tao on campus to give the Moursund Lectures this week. His blog is here.
At dinner I got him to sign my copy of his book Solving Mathematical Problems, which I bought hoping it might someday help interest my kids in math :-)
This article describes Tao's remarkable intellectual development, as well as that of another mathematical prodigy, Lenny Ng (son of UNC physicist Jack Ng, who did his PhD with Julian Schwinger).
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ReplyDeletehow does terrance compare to euler asks bobmcbob? DAN saids EULER MAKES tao look like a subhuman animal! terecne WON 13 awards already? and what has he done? uhhh... 13 prizes and BEN-TAO THEOREM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletehow tall is he? well the one i met was imeasureed 6'8'' tall! are you sure you dont mean 5'8'' tall like bayley wong?
the one i met was looking at god!!
TORRENCE DOESN"T EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a jerk even more jerk than andre willSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs