What's his problem?

>>8661253
>Not famous for solving a problem/breakthrough.
um, Green–Tao theorem?

>>8661255
>a problem related to the Twin Prime Conjecture
Smartest mathematician alive and this is the best he can do?
Is this the culmination of his career?

>>8661268
>thinks Green-Tao is related to twin prime
barely, and it just shows you're speaking far out of your depth

>>8661272
I quoted from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao.

>>8661276
yes, like i said, speaking out of your depth, especially since that quote came from some brainlet writing an article for new york times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13prof.html) and had to publish a correction for not knowing what he was talking about (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/pageoneplus/14corrections.ART-010.html)

twin prime is about infinitely many primes spaced 2 apart, green-tao is about finding arithmetic progressions of primes of any desired finite length

>>8661286
OK, so Tao is most famous for the Green–Tao theorem?

>>8661294
probably, along with helping refine zhang's work on the twin prime conjecture, and whatever else he got the breakthrough prize for " numerous breakthrough contributions to harmonic analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations and analytic number theory."

>>8661253
Erdos isn't remembered for one theorem/field either. Not every mathematician spends years building one gargantuan development like grootendick. Lots of them do many, many smaller things.

>>8661253
>took him 8 years to finish his honours degree

what a fucking retard

>>8661253
>>8661255
B-but /sci/ told me child prodigies never amount to anything.

>>8661332
>Erdos isn't remembered for one theorem/field either.
From Wikipedia:
>He did win the Wolf Prize, where his contribution is described as "for his numerous contributions to number theory, combinatorics, probability, set theory and mathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over".[38] In contrast, the works of the three winners after were recognized as "outstanding", "classic", and "profound", and the three before as "fundamental" or "seminal".
>>8661429
>B-but /sci/ told me child prodigies never amount to anything.
Don't get me wrong.
He's likely the most knowledgeable mathematician out there but there's not much romance to him.

hurr unless you solve a big, well-known,pre-existing problem your mathematical output doesn't count

>>8661355
Kek

>>8661704
>hurr unless you solve a big, well-known,pre-existing problem your mathematical output doesn't count
What's the point of being a wojak on steroids if you don't tackle the big guys?
He's likely working in a lot of them.

>>8661726
>in
*on.

science is a social phenomena and a quest for truth, the quest for truth can get you attention if you find something, if you have attention just for the quest itself, you don't have the same motivation to find the truth.
newton was supposed to go to the market with the slave everyday(sent by his mother)
instead newton would send the slave along, and take refuge under an old tree with the "history and declaration of the physical herbs"
https://books.google.com/books?id=pFcfNkN8QGYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=herb&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs2_jBt4PSAhXJLSYKHV_OBU44ChDoAQhPMAk#v=onepage&q=herb&f=false
which he got when working for mr. clark at the apothecary.

he became a nerd out of rebellion from becoming a farmer as his father had been.

>>8662413
This made me reflect.

>>8661729
>on
*Through.