>Best mathematician alive. >Chad with hot wife and two

serious scholars don't give a fuck about fame, rather the severity of their work and the impact that'll do to their respective fields.

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>>9005823
But he's working on Navier-Stokes.
He has worked as well on Goldbach proving that:
>Terence Tao proved that all odd numbers are at most the sum of five primes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture

Mathematics is reaching its limits, and the stress is showing in mathematicians around the planet. We should count Tao a success in that he's found bliss in working on extremely difficult problems with only incremental gains instead of becoming the next Unabomber out of sheer cynicism, jealousy, or rage.

>>9005818
>Still hasn't solved any Millennial Problems

What makes him the best then?

>>9005843
>Mathematics is reaching its limits, and the stress is showing in mathematicians around the planet.
Sure.
He'll brake down when the next wild memetician will give an answer to Goldbach or Navier-Stokes.

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>hot wife

>>9005848
>What makes him the best then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJ-zpJeY3E
I don't know that's something I've read often.

>>9005863
Oh well if it was in a numberphile video it must be true.

Honestly, if you actually take pop maths videos seriously you are a brainlet of the highest order. Terrence Tao is undisputably a genius, but is he the greatest living mathematician? I doubt it.

>>9005868
>Terrence Tao is undisputably a genius, but is he the greatest living mathematician? I doubt it.
Who's the best out there then?

>>9005863
Let's see him solve the Riemann hypothesis, then I might be impressed.

>>9005869
I don't think one can really say there is someone you could truly say is "the best" at something like math, since everyone has the potential to understand everything there is to know.

>>9005869
How do you define best? Most influential? Solved the hardest problem? Most intelligent? Each of those definitions would give a different answer.

>>9005869
>Who's the best out there then?
Serre

>>9005881
Deep, smart, flexible, accomplished.
Tao knows about everything and has solved difficult problems but he lacks something popular to attach his name to.

>>9005885
>Tao knows about everything
No mathematician these days "knows about everything", the field is simply too big to possibly learn it all in an entire lifetime.

>>9005885
Cont.
Say, Grothendieck was certainly deep but he didn't know about the Gaussian integral and was shit at counting.

>>9005885
>he lacks something popular to attach his name to.
Green-Tao theorem?

>>9005828
>Terence Tao proved that all odd numbers are at most the sum of five primes.
Holy shit, this knowledge will revolutionize our world!

>>9005898
Physicist detected

>>9005897
>Green-Tao theorem?
Who knows about that honestly?
On the other hand Fermat's last theorem or Poincaré's conjecture are far more popular.
>Terence Tao is famous for proving the Green-Tao theorem.
C'mon no.

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>>9005818
I'm convinced that the guy is actually a 21st century Bourbaki scheme. I mean the amount of output the guy puts out is just insane. He's constantly publishing ridiculously huge papers, collaborating with tons of people, running his blog, not to mention every fucking thing else in his life.

I mean either this guy has really got it all figured out and we're all struggling to live through each day in his eyes or he's actually 20 people living under the same name.

>>9005862
his mom

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>>9005862
Those kids will never get out from under his shadow.

>>9005892
I'm not that guy but I think Tao is probably the closest mathematician to that out there.

>>9005906
Nope, those are his wife and kids. Look it up

>>9005904
Large amount of output does not correspond to large amount of value contributed.

>>9005925
>disputing an argument no one made
>not knowing that Tao has published a lot of valuable work
Hey everyone, get a load of this guy. He's buttblasted about reality itself.

>>9005928
>proof by assertion

>>9005930
>P is true
>>b-but P doesn't imply Q
>No one said it implied Q, but Q is also true
>>p-p-prove it

No, I don't care. Find someone else to cry about your insecurities to.

I'm only interested in how it's possible for this dude to put out so much raw content.

>>9005935
>I'm only interested in how it's possible for this dude to put out so much raw content.

Then why did you bother mentioning it? 20 monkeys on typewriters could write "ridiculously huge papers, collaborate with tons of people, run blogs". What's the significance?

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>>9005940
I can actually feel your insecurity through the internet.

>>9005950
So now you're resorting to ad hominems?

You yourself admitted that quantity does not imply quantity, so nothing beyond your assertion shows he really is the best. Yet I'm somehow insecure for doubting your logic?

You must think you're god or something.

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>>9005963
>quantity does not imply quantity

>>9005949
Why are you posting this?

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>>9005963
>arguing against an argument no one made
Why are you so threatened by someone you could never compete with?

>>9005968
You understood what I meant, chink cock sucker.

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>>9005980
Why the racism? I'm not Chinese.

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>>9005980
wow, rude

>>9005977
Who says I feel threatened by him?

>>9005975
Sycophants must be exposed for their hypocrisy.

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>>9005994
>Who says I feel threatened by him?

>>9005818

that's how people look in China

>>9005898
>he doesn't know that uncovering the secrets of the primes is the key for the next technological revolution

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>>9005975
i asked the question because i want to know the answer

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>cushy tenured professorship at UCLA
>needing to get his name into the history books

He makes $500k a year from UCLA, solving a Millennium Prize problem is like two years' salary. Terence might actually just be an extreme version of "smart but lazy."

>>9006015
Why does he stay at UCLA tho? Couldnt he go to a better uni? Shit state too

>>9006034
Because of all the hot girls there

>>9005818
That guy is 41? Jesus christ.

>>9005869
me

>>9006034
maybe he can get that government pension

>>9006268
Obviously he used a 41 year old's social security number to get a job in America.

>>9005818
Tao is nowhere close to being the best living mathematician, he's a >mah boy geeuos meem. Famous among normalfag because the mainstream media likes him.

>>9005875
>everyone has the potential to understand everything there is to know.
lmao no

>>9005818
>Still hasn't solved any Millenial Problems therefore his name will be lost in spaghetti unlike Wiles or Perelmeme.
but Wiles hasn't solved one either

>>9006378
To be fair he's also famous among mathematicians because mathematicians are kind of meek.

>>9006415
He solved something much more important. The Millennium problems are a meme anyway.
>>9006432
Sure. I too visit his blog weekly. I was just explaining what's up with the "greatest living mathematician" meme. He's been called that by various news outlets because he's very marketable.

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>>9006436
>The Millennium problems are a meme

>>9006458
Then solve one faggot

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>>9006460
>a math problem is a meme if you can't solve it

>>9006460
Fuck I tagged the wrong comment. I meant to tag
>>9006436

>>9006458
there are plenty of important non-millennium problems

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>>9006436
>The Millennium problems are a meme

A Meme that pays a $1 million prize

A Prize that was rejected by the Meme Hobo Meth User called Grigori Perelman.

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>>9006466
>there are plenty of important non-millennium problems
So how does that make the Millennium problems a meme?

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>>9006464
A Hobo Solved the Poincaré conjecture

t. Grigori Perelman

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>>9006468
>Ph.D. in Math >any job I want >$300k starting

>Millennium problems >the fame you want >$1 million prize

Stop posting without references.
It doesn't make you look cool, it makes you look like an attention seeking idiot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao

The Millennium problems are a meme because every non-expert cares about them because of the prize attached, which is paltry, by the way. Of course /sci/ and the retarded nigger gorillaposter would fawn over this shit.

/sci/ is full of brainlets who don't know anything about anything.

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>>9006488
>every non-expert cares about them because of the prize attached
sounds like projection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection)

>paltry
subjective

>nigger
Why the racism?

>>9006015
>Terence might actually just be an extreme version of "smart but lazy."
So if you aren't working on Millennium prize problems you're lazy? Come on.

>people are replying to this seriously

you realize that making breakthroughs happen because of how much work you put into analyzing notions right? talk to researchers in various fields and bring up your work. that is how progress is made. that's how people are remembered.

it doesn't matter how good you look, how smart you are, it's about what kind of connection you make with people around you. more than just a leader, but being a tether for what would be the relationship which motivated people to solving problems with you and your contributions. that defines a revolution. the age of isolated solvers is gone with the advent of the internet.

you should exploit that instead of reveling in the notions of legends in the advent of their own peak.

>>9005898
Your ignorance of the sudden and intricate applications of Mathematics in our technology and science is blatant. Such a thing has present implications though no immediate, wide-reaching application. However, in a century or two it is liable to be a component of a key to some great technology or discovery. Like we see so often. Remember computers and their abstractions were just Pure Mathematics, not so long ago.

Never disparage the development of something like Mathematics.

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>>9006522
>the age of isolated solvers is gone with the advent of the internet.
This has to be the brainlet statement of the year.

>>9005895
Grothendieck gave birth to whole new branch of mathematics that has quickly found applications all over the place, not just in math. He brought revolution, something that can only be said about handful of mathematicians. And Tao isn't among them. There are plenty of prodigies that end up doing "mundane" research instead of revolutionary discoveries. Look at Erik Demaine. All of these people are insane at problem solving, but lack something that people like Grothendieck had.

>>9005818
>Chad with hot wife and two kids
Yeah even though he could barely talk till a few years from all that stutter

>>9006467
>>9006471
So? Maybe you just underestimated hobos?

>>9006682
Stop spamming your bullshit moron.

>>9005898
t. brainlet

>>9006034

Few other unis care that much about their math department that they'd drop dean-level money on a mathematician.
>Shit state too
Only if you're poor.

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>>9005949
>>9006718

I don't understand the control mechanism that results in this kind of response to my contributions to physics and mathematics that are unparalleled over the last few generational cycles, and will hopefully last for very many more such cycles.

>>9006503
How can I be projecting when I don't even care about the Millennium problems? You know what I think? I think I hit the nail on the head, and you don't like it, Mr. Nig Nog.

>>9006522
You have literally no idea what you're talking about. Mathematics has the lowest number of contributors per article among all the sciences.

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>>9006749
>How can I be projecting when I don't even care about the Millennium problems?
Well I guess it's not projection then.

>You know what I think?
I do.

>I think I hit the nail on the head, and you don't like it, Mr. Nig Nog.
Not quite, or at least I still don't see the reason why the opinions of non-experts determine the meme status of a problem.

>>9006756
>opinions of non-experts determine the meme status of a problem.
>tfw Helene is the physics decider

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>>9006765
Who is Helene?

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>>9006768
I think its my mother whom I feel is dedicated to my non-success.
>tfw your parents' likenesses are in the 9/11 mural you walk by on the way the the homeless shelter

Why isn't he a billionaire?

>>9005869
Probably some eccentric autist who lives in a basement and can't make eye contact.

If you put ALL your stat points to math, you have literally 0 left for social contact, so this guy will probably aboid the public and being famous like the plague.

>>9005843
>mathematicians are successful if they don't become serial killers

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>>9005843
>Mathematics is reaching its limits

>>9008606
Human limits. Of course, there are still a lot of mathematics to be discovered but they are completely untouchable by most (soon, all) human minds.

>>9008662
I bet u talk like that with your friends and they hate u for it and call u a know-it-all when really the proper term is PSEUD

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>>9005818 >>9005862

The real question is how a 41 years old looks like in his 20s

while keeping both a huge mental power & very good physical health.

How He does that? A Super Healthy Nutrition?Genes? A Consequence of High IQ? What's the reason?

>>9005843
>Mathematics is reaching its limits
>bcoz I know what are its limits
L0Lno fgt pls

>>9008662
>Of course, there are still a lot of mathematics to be discovered but they are completely untouchable by most (soon, all) human minds.
You could say the same thing for computers (in theory, you could rebuild the computer you're using to post on 4chan using nothing but NAND gates, but is there even anyone who is actually capable of doing so?) and that hasn't stopped CS research from trickling to a halt.
If anything, it's accelerating.

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>>9008590
>If you put ALL your stat points to math, you have literally 0 left for social contact

>>9008751
>If anything, it's accelerating.
This is not true at all. The only reason research continues apace is much higher population. In per capita terms output has been decreasing in almost all fields post 1950 or so.

>>9008776
why do people harass him like this? he just wants to be left alone.

>>9005818
Is he a poo or a chink?

>>9009197
he's australian

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>>9009197 >>9009222
Australian Chink

>>9006467
Perelman makes more money by doing consulting work for Trump.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC37VXrVNjE

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>>9006015

Living the meme

>>9005898
LMAO@YOURLIFE

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>>9005869

>>9005818
How has he serviced the society?

>>9009768

Is he living in a socialist state?

>>9009768
2m0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3dLcTkJRr0&feature=youtu.be&t=2m0s
>I guess scans that would take two minutes take now like ten seconds.
On the other hand you could die in a car crash tomorrow and not even you're parents would give a shit.

>>9005818
>>Superhuman genes: 41 yo but looks like in his 20s.
It is unimportant.

>his name will be lost in spaghetti unlike Wiles or Perelmeme
what a bleak worldview

>>9009789
heh heh heh guess u made a grammar error, now your point is completely invalid xD

>>9008702
Hi Terry.

>>9005983
He is saying you are sucking a Chinese dick, he is not saying you are not Chinese

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>>9011081 >>9005983
>He is saying you are sucking a Chinese dick

CHINKED.COM

>>9008702
Good genes, asian, spending most of his time away from damaging UV radiation.

>>9005843
Mathematics reached it's limits in real analysis. Jokes aside, you're an idiot.

>>9005898
t. found the engineer. BTFO fag

>>9005904
T. Tao always writes about how he accomplishes all this.

First of all it's purely hard work. Everybody else is sitting around watch Game of Memes or some other bullshit, he's doing research. The reason he can do this is because he built discipline as a kid in order to sit and do research all day. This kind of concentration/discipline is just something you get better at through practice, there's nothing genius or anything about it.

Tao also denies his own genius claiming it was the tons of hours he put in of work and excellent tutors and mentors he had in order to get him where he is today.

He, like most other very successful people also has a precise daily schedule. Tao never sits around thinking 'what should I do today' because he planned that out last week, to the minute. A guy in my department did the same thing and was able to get tenure at age 30 from producing so many papers.

>>9005912
Tao is indeed the only living mathematician we have that can confidently be said to know almost every knowledge domain in modern mathematics. Many other mathematicians have said there isn't much he doesn't know when asked about a subject.

>>9005818
>Chad
he's an autistic beta retard
> with hot wife and two kids.
I guess I fell for the bait.

>>9006015
>"smart but lazy."

He works constantly. He is doing everything right. It's just not easy to magically come up with a solution to the world's problems just because you happen to be one of the smartest men alive.

Same with Witten.

And Tao often seems to be of the opinion that some of the big problems are just not solved yet because we don't understand the fundamentals well enough, so he chooses to work on the boring fundamentals.

>>9006034

He probably find it comfy and gets along well with the administration at UCLA and it doesn't really matter for him because he is already so well regarded.

Nothing would chance if he went to Princeton or elsewhere.

>>9006467

Literally nobody gives a shit about the money. Any of these brilliant mathematicians could have gone to work for someone in the private sector and made closer to 5 million in a lifetime of earnings if they were after money.

>>9011491
This is what annoys me, whenever I hear about Perlmeme, even in lectures (like a CMU lecture in Math351) and the normies bring up the fact that "omg! he didn't take the money!" they don't understand that if they wanted money they'd be on wallstreet literally making multi millions per year. Capitalism is such a cancereous ideology where you are a complete pariah if you choose not to chase the accumulation of shekels your entire life.

>>9011437
>First of all it's purely hard work.

Oh fuck off. The guy is a undisputed genius.

Look, most people are too stupid to get their heads around the concept of groups and would never in a lifetime of trying, manage to solve a rudimentary group theory problem set.

In the same manner most mathematicians are just not smart enough to get their heads around some concepts that these geniuses come up with.

The guy was working with Paul Erdos when he was fucking 10. I'm 25. I have an MSc in Mathematics and Astronomy and I am positive that I wouldn't be able to think alongside Erdos on any kind of problem.

The guy is extremely humble and it's also not PC for him to just straight out say that you need a very high IQ to do work in mathematics. But it's still true.

Hard work is not going to get you shit. Some of my classmates when I was in school were very diligent workers and despite spending more than the required amount of hours on a class, and doing all the tutorial problem sets, they still failed.

>>9011506
His mother is a mathematician and tutored him early. Your friends didn't have that and probably watched cartoons while he was being taught Venn diagrams in set theory and how to spot patterns

>>9006685
Once again we get into the argument of problem solvers versus theory developers.

I don't think you should think of one as better than the other because add the end of the day, we all coexist in a sort of symbiotic relationship.

Perhaps it is possible to think of this in terms of supply and demand.

Problem solvers create demand:
This is because problem solvers show what is currently provable, and what currently is not provable with the available tools. If you read about asymptotic approximations, many results are usually accompanied with a message like
>I believe this can be improved, but would need a breakthrough. For example, if you assume the Riemann Hypothesis then...

So without problem solvers, we wouldn't know what we want and what we need.

Theory developers supply:
As theory developers know what problems are "popular" at the moment, it helps them guide their research. And when they actually develop something new, there is nothing better to turn your theory into something famous than to hint at how your theory can be used to prove a currently famous problem. If you are able to achieve that then literally everyone will start sucking your cock. But you will only be able to get this level of cock sucking if someone else already made the problem famous.

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I argued that the Reimann hypothesis is false due to the gradient in azimuthal dependence in the region labeled [math] \hat \Phi^1[/math]

>On The Riemann Zeta Function
>http://vixra.org/abs/1703.0073

>>9011518
>His mother is a mathematician and tutored him early.

I know quite a few guys whose parents are professors and none of them came out geniuses. Not even close.

>>9011851
Tao isn't Von Memeian. He can't memorize an entire phone book and tell you the page number a name is on instantly. That is genius. Tao is certainly high IQ but he didn't magically coast through math he worked hard, with the help of experts from when he was a kid.

>>9011848
Hey, I remember seeing you months ago here. You are still in vixra? Why haven't you published in arxiv? Your paper would be taken more seriously.

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>>9011866
After submitting a manuscript to arXiv in 2009 they rejected it without comment based on some set of unpublished set of censorship criteria that arXiv-worshipping pleb brainlets don't know exist. They rejected my submissions in 2011 and at leasty that time I got a note saying that I had to get endorsed to publish on their website. I got endorsed by a full professor in my department and then they rejected me again and also revoked my endorsement. Now that I am nt endorsed, I am unable to publish on arXiv.

Even if I did somehow get endorsed again, and somehow I made it past the unpublished censorship criteria, I would never even consider gracing that despicable organization with my name. I am dedicated to destruction of the arXiv as an internet institution and also to the destruction of the careers who who used this once venerable institution to pervert the course of the history of science.

>>9011865

Savants are not geniuses at all. They just have fucked up brains that make them overall low-functioning adults.

Tao is a well rounded highly intelligent person. He has very high mental aptitudes but can also function as a human being. Tao is the definition of a genius.

You are confusing things.

>>9012043
He did not talk about savants in general, but about von Neumann, which happens to be a savant. He also was very social.

>>9012031
>I argued that the Reimann hypothesis is false

>wondering why he couldn't get published on arXiv

Yeah frankly, you wouldn't be able to get published anywhere. It's very hard to convince a publisher that you solved a century old problem as a nobody without any notable co-authors.

What you should have done, is you should have talked to the relevant mathematicians in your faculty and convince them to take a look. I mean even this is super hard. But it's the first step. Then they will tell you, that your paper is just junk. But continuing with the fantasy, if they agree, you'd use their endorsement to reach out to other mathematicians, until eventually you catch the curiosity of the enough of that that they will invite you to publish your paper.

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>>9005818 (OP)
>Best mathematician alive.

A Hobo Blocks His Path

>>9012068

Perelman isn't just a mathematician.

He's a fucking mystical legend. Tao is just a boring average Asian math genius. Whatever.

Perelman is a crazy Russian mathematician hermit who shakes the world with his intellect and then goes back to work, but not before flipping the bird to the general mathematics community that slighted him. Fucking legend.

Perelman is the kind of guy that I will tell my kids about. Tao will probably be forgotten unless he actually manages something equally extrodinary.

>>9012073
He is jew, not slav-dirtbag.

>>9012082

His actions and convictions are clearly Russian though. Jews don't act that way.

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Additionally I submitted very many drafts of several different manuscripts to various publications of APS, IOP, and AIP and was never given peer review. After a while my credential on the online submission system would stop working. Several times I was told that my manuscript was inappropriate in lieu of peer-review of the principles reported in the manuscript.

David Finkelstein, or Kruskal--Finkelstein fame, invited me to his house to discuss my theory in 2011. He asked me this question, "But how do you go from the line to the curve?," and I responded, "That's the inverse process of constructing the Reimann sphere," meaning that we could project from a pointlike termination at infinity onto sphere for analystic continuation. A light bulb flashed above his head and I saw the surprise on his face as he noticed what I meant and he said, "That's a good answer," or something.

He told me to submit for peer-review to IJTPD where he guaranteed I would get "real peer review." I had complained to him that each publication venue was rejecting my manuscript without criticizing the ideas. That was the only place I submitted that I did get criticized but even then it wasn't standard peer-review. The anonymous reviewer, who I am confident was David himself, told me that my idea about negative time disagreed with the ADM positive definiteness result. I submitted a rebuttal to the criticism through the online submission system that ADM's 1960's result was built a non-orientable topology but that the multipoles in the modern CMB data disallow the non-orientable hypothesis. I received no response and my login credentials were revoked in short order.

Would you guys put Tao on the same level as Grothendieck in terms of legacy?

>>9012043
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to-be-a-genius-to-do-maths/

Genius is the excuse brainlets use for not wanting to work, Tao spells this out for you.

Very few people are actual geniuses. Einstein was not, he also had to work and spent years and years working with others on his theory of relativity. What he did theoretically somebody else could have figured out eventually. That makes his work even more impressive as it did not just magically happen, he worked at it.

However Von Memeian was a true genius, in that the shit he could do, a normal person could not feasibly due such as invent a new major field in math every year or so.

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And then later when Helene was telling me that I was going insane because I protesting against the government so assertively she begged and begged me for permission to contact David because she wanted his opinion because she was so worried about me. I assume the communication between the two of them was a key component in some ultra-elite Jewish conspiracy. David told her, according to Helene, that i am what physicists hate most: someone who writes about physics as if they know physics but actually doesn't know physics. I suppose that argument didn't pass QA because later everyone said I didn't write like a physicist and that what I wrote was nonsensical because of le schizo vixra maymays.

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>>9012066
>Yeah frankly, you wouldn't be able to get published anywhere
Well actually if you look up the definition of "published" int he dictionary I did get published thanks to Phil Gibbs' fantastic organization. Among the vast sea of publishers, it appears to me that Phil is the only one that is not all jacked up.

>mathematicians in your faculty
I am a homeless hobo. Most of my best research happened after leaving college on bad terms in 2011. My intention is to force the submission of the publication syndicate into admitting that they were wrong in the way the handled manuscripts... among other intentions. I am starting a PhD in math hopefully this fall, and I hope they do not attempt to force my submission to the academic cartel because I won't do it if it means sending a manuscript to someone other than the university or viXra. I wouldn't rule out considering another publisher after the system's doyens eat all that humble pie, but certainly not before.

>>9005818
>Chad

How ugly and socially inept are you that being averagely nerdy looking, having an average wife and a few kids, and having a good job makes you a Chad?

>>9011865
>Tao isn't Von Memeian. He can't memorize an entire phone book and tell you the page number a name is on instantly. That is genius.
the definition of 'genius' for mathematicians is hysterical, almost to the point of pity.

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Terry tao doesn't have the phenotype that Ashkenazi women crave...

>>9012082
Most jews are just eastern european slavs.

>>9005898
>how does encryption work

>>9012073
>general mathematics community that slighted him
new here, what did they do to him that made him go into hermit mode?

>>9005907
The little girl already has her fist clenched in rage in the picture.

>>9006382
We all have brains. Psychology is a meme. Choose one.

>>9009749
He's cheating, though

>>9012245
Come on man, it's important to fulfill the schedule for clozapine to work. I fell for you, i've had episodes too. It's a huge hindrance, but if you get treatment, you can still participate in academia.

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>>9012857
Seems like you're signalling weakness with the way you changed your grammatical style in response to the dankness of my recent maymays. If you were in a position of strength your strategy wouldn't have destabilized like that.

>>9013127
My grammatical style is the result of me learning english from multiple channels and never caring to learn it properly. I care for health of my fellow /sci/entists, no matter how much they are consumed by their disease. Clozapine works wonders, but has strict schedule. If you actively try to overcome the disease, you will be productive again. As of now, not even your fellow post graduates are willing to feed your delusions. Seek medical help, get on the right track again. It's hard to finish PhD with this kind of disease and you get nothing but mental descent for going through.

>>9012031
mail your article to terry tao see what happens

>>9013203
I wonder how your attitude will be when I'm torturing your friends and family to death

>>9005818
>implying better (whatever that means) mathematicians are entitled to make meaningful discoveries
Math discoveries are luck after some point. Sometimes you just have to study the right things at the right time. I believe there is a plethora of unknown mathematicians that are more potent than the meme ones.

Similar thing with the IQ, which is supposed to tell your intellectual potential. But what if a person with a very high IQ achieves nothing through his life? In retrospect that means his potential was nil.

>chad

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>>9013208
Terry Tao can download it off viXra like everyone else and if you want him to see it then I encourage you to send it to him. If he had any interest in the cutting edge of research in mathematics he would have already read it.

>>9005823
>serious scholars don't give a fuck about fame
Oh they do, they just won't admit it, even before themselves.
By all means, pursuing the things they do is a horrible career choice. Either you do it out of passion, in which case you don't really care about memes that'll make you famous, or you waste your life on them because you secretly hope for an approval in history books.

>>9013211
As i have neither, it will be exactly the same. Vixra is bad place to be frequenting with this disease, you should avoid it.

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>>9013225
>>9005823

I care about fame a lot. It's actually very important to me because I see it as a fast track into leadership.

>>9013231
you want to be a hokage or sth?

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>>9013231
In fact, I would say that my current lack of fame is most directly driven by the current leaders' fear of losing their leadership positions. They are correct to fear that because they will lose them, and they will lose their place in eternity when I wipe out their descendants for fucking me and everyone else over so hard.

>>9013234
I don't know what a hokage or a sth is.

>>9013237
There is an adequate piece of literature for people like you. It's called "Naruto". Look it up.

>>9008702
you gotta start eating less doritos and more ramen

>>9012652

Perelman's protest is actually very noble and it's a shame it isn't more widely known.

Basically his gripe was with how mathematicians earn credit for their work. Basically, in mathematics the one who crosses the finish line gets all the credit. In this case it would have been Perelman. And the community certainly did try to give him all the credit. But he thought this to be a massive injustice. Because there is of course decades of work by other people that he based his proof on.

He also didn't agree with the other people who were given credit for results preceding his proof. He thought that some guys got way too much recognition and he thought that one guy was left out. Apparently a decade earlier he had a conversation with some American mathematician that gave Perelman the insight he needed to build his proof and Perelman credits this Hamilton guy. But the weird thing is this Hamilton guy doesn't actually remember the encounter as particularly productive. So it's like he unknowingly helped Perelman.

So basically Perelman's whole protest was about who should get credit for doing math.

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>>9013386
China & Japan eats Ramen for thousands of years.

Japan is the healthiest nation with the longest life expectancy & .

The creator of Instant Ramen Momofuku Ando aged 96 years after eating Ramen every day for decades. Died after a long life of 96 years.

Ramen can be healthy when the soup is mixed with some vegetables & meat.

Who says that "Ramen is not Healthy" is just Memeing.

>>9013424
Ramen may be healthy, but not the instant variety.

>>9013424
It's also the favorite food of naruto so >>9013237 should look into it.

yeah, that's not a chad though

>>9013614
>yeah, that's not a chad though
Oh, yes he is.
>Works his ass off every day.
>Routinely entertains lecture halls with hundreds of people.
>Plenty of qts who'd like to fuck him.
>Has family and kids.
>Earns half a million every year.
>Is one of the most important people on this planet.
You don't have to be ripped to be a Chad.

>>9013424
it's not because of ramen you dunce. they are healthiest because they eat fish and chicken as their main source of animal protein compared to beef or pork in the west. Also being short extends your life expectancy.

>>9005828
>Terence Tao proved that all odd numbers are at most the sum of five primes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture
That's super fucking impressive, holy shit
I wish I was mathematically literate enough to understand the proof

That major & minor arc stuff is crazy.
Can't they come up with something better?

>>9014191
Im 8ft6 am i gonna die? I wanna learn algebraic geometry first :(

>>9014556
You might want to cut your limbs off.

>>9009749
KEK, stop

>>9014198
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture

Can somebody explain to me why this is important?

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>>9015043
>caring about importance of math conjectures
That comes later

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>>9014191
>Also being short extends your life expectancy.

But Scandinavian are just as tall as Anglos.

Nordic Countries have a longer life expectancy, one of the healthiest nations (less than Asians though) while USA is struggling with Obesity.

Is the Norden diet so different? Do they eat more Fish & less Carbs? Or Is there another reason?

>>9015070

>Nordic Countries have a longer life expectancy

They don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_life_expectancy

>>9015081
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_life_expectancy

Your own source shows that Iceland, a Nordic Country has the Highest Life Expectancy in Europe.

In a Tie with Switzerland

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>>9008702
he looks like he's in his mid-30's, not 41, i'll give you that - but nowhere near 29.

short answer for why he looks *slightly* younger than he actually is: low testosterone.

look at how steroid abusers age, for instance how that mountain guy from game of thrones looked before he juiced up.

pic related: right image is him in 2006 @ age 17.
left image is him around 10 years later.

>>9015097

Yeah followed by all of south western Europe and then the rest of the Nordic countries.

And it's only one year. And Iceland is 100,000 people in a land actually quite far away from mainland Europe with a quite different lifestyle.

Your claim was that Nordics have a higher life expectancy (then the rest of Europe, presumably). It's clearly not true.

>>9005898
Someone already replied about encryption but I'm just gonna tell you to lurk for 2 years before posting

>>9015043
It's important because it is pretty hard to prove something like that. Now that it is proven we know that collectively we are really good at analysis and number theory.

>>9015361
Goldbach isn't proven

>>9015367
Yeah, for some reason I thought he meant the thing Tao proved about the 5 primes.

Anyways, IF we prove the Goldbach conjecture then we can jerk each other off about how good we are at analysis.

>>9011471
Tao has no imagination. Typical for chinks. That's why he's mainly working on well treaded paths.

>>9011518
>denying hereditarianism
>on /sci/
Well, we do have flat-earther threads too, after all.

>>9012216
Nice bait.

>>9014191
They're healthy because they have good genes.

why is everyone in this board autistic?

>>9015475
>>9015488

Well, "IQ fatalism" (sorry does that term make sense?) goes against the American motto that all the imbeciles use: "you can be anything".

/sci/ always had a lot of people who deny that intellectual aptitude limits your potential

>>9015531
That's a lot like asking why everyone in a special ed class is retarded.

>>9005872
Let's see you pass algebra 2

>>9006548
Beautiful post

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>Really makes you ponder.

>>9005848
because most mathematicians don't even work on those problems? Not because they are too hard, but because they cover a rather narrow subset of mathematics....

>>9005912
he's almost certainly not. The closest mathematician to "knowing everything" is probably some unknown first professor at a decent school that has learned and read shittons but isn't as creative/good at solving problems. People who aren't mathematicians really don't understand how many of these guys are out there (a lot of them french or russian, coming out of one of the more rigorous math programs).
>>9011437
Tao doesn't know anywhere cloe to every knowledge domain in mathematics. No one does. "Many mathematicians say..." He also doesn't talk to many mathematicians outside of analysis, number theory, or combinatorics.


You all are being silly. If we actually polled mathematicians (ask your professors/colleagues), one would find yes, many analysts would say tao is the best mathematician alive. There are also many people who work in tao's area. But I wouldn't be surprised if more than 1/2 of people said someone like atiyah, milnor, serre, or gromov. I come from a department strong in algebraic, differential geometry and topology, and probably 100% of professors would name one of the above.

>>9005885
Deep, smart, flexible, accomplished.

In terms of all except maybe smart, there are certainly countless mathematicians better than tao. Gromov is certianly deeper, more flexible, and more accomplished than tao, for example. And if you don't know his work, saying gromov isn't flexible because he just does geomtry is akin to saying tao isn't because he just does analysis (and the latter is closer to the truth than the former if you've read papers of tao and gromov).

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>>9018598

>>9006415
a friend of mines dad has spent countless years trying to prove fermats last theorem. he doesnt believe Wiles' proof is legit as it uses mathematics not available to fermat.

>>9018847
>Someone who is really well connected to the community and spends tons of time working on math while constantly being exposed to new shit probably knows less than a dude who doesn't have any community involvement and mainly learns about stuff by reading about it.

There are a lot of people out there who know a lot, sure. But nothing replaces community involvement and few people have more of it than Tao.
lolno

>>9018847
In my experience the algebraic geometry/topology guys often do know about a lot of areas of math BUT they only know how to approach them through Algebra, no matter how contorted and hamfisted the approach is.

I can't think of anyone who would seriously argue that those people know every domain, simply for that reason alone.

>>9008662
>>9008778
This is absolutely true, but everyone gets triggered here if you mention it, understandably.
Math and science is dead, not because we have understood and quantified everything, but because the mental capacity of humans isnt great enough to understand much more.
Why is it then that researching got exponentially harder and the achievments get more and more insignificant. Its like with the exploration of the universe, we are at a point now, where its impossibly hard to go to uncharted places. For example in the middle ages you could theoretically just explore the seas and the continents, now everyone is hyped to fly to mars, a liveless boring stoneball and it takes an extreme amount of knowledge and effort.

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>>9018944
>he doesnt believe Wiles' proof is legit as it uses mathematics not available to fermat.
I don't get it.
You mean axioms of set theory?

>>9019176
I assume he means all the representation theory, modular forms and algebraic geometry that Wiles used

>>9019204
>I assume he means all the representation theory, modular forms and algebraic geometry that Wiles used
That's silly.
They are true now and they were true back then.
They just weren't discovered.
Your dad can look into an elementary proof but he can't dismiss Wiles' proof.

>>9018847
Cool answer, thank you.
>People who aren't mathematicians really don't understand how many of these guys are out there [...]
Have you met anyone?

>>9019223
hes already dismissed it

>>9005818
he didnt shave properly

>>9019708
to intelligent to shave

>>9019029
>Why is it then that researching got exponentially harder and the achievments get more and more insignificant.
Because knowledge has increased exponentially and so there is exponentially more time involved in a single individual knowing all that they'd need or want.

>>9006034
>UCLA not top math school
>Best state in the union is shit

Which bumfuck red state do you hail from?

>>9019792
How is Florida the best state?

>>9019226
Yes, many of them.

>>9018969 and to a topologist, geometer, or algevraist, tao views everything like an analyst. Like I said, I don't think anyone even arguably knows even most domains of mathematics, just that there are definitely those who know more than tao, and that it's most likely someone less accomplished than tao.

>>9019862
Can you describe any?
Had they any special memory or they were simply very interested in reading mathematics.

>>9005828
>Terence Tao proved that all odd numbers are at most the sum of five primes
How the fuck do you even go about proving that? Jesus fuck

>>9019792

Unless Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, Cambridge, ENS and literally all the other schools that serves as a power gap were nuked from existence, yes, UCLA is not a top math school.

>>9020621
http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/mathematics.html

>6 University of California, Los Angeles
>7 University of Cambridge
>12 University of California, Berkeley
>45 California Institute of Technology

>>9020637
>29 Texas A&M
>35 ENS
I'm not sure how accurate this list is anon.

>>9020652
France has a weird thing going on where research that isn't translated to French often goes entirely overlooked as if it doesn't exist. That doesn't mean that they aren't good researchers, they are good at what they do but they're kind of disconnected from the greater community.

Also, Texas A&M is not that good of a school. Are you surprised because it's so far up?

>>9020637
>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem above Harvard for math
kek this ranking is shit

>>9020736
Yeah, I get UT being up there, but A&M? How are they that highly ranked? It really doesn't make much sense

>>9020752
they do a surprisingly big amount of research. The old football rivalry is dumb.

>>9020786
Well I'll be damned, good for them

>>9019029
I'd say it has more to do with the education system not being remotely oriented towards churning out competent mathematicians/scientists. Compare the /sci/-recommended non-brainlet curricula to what most of us actually experienced, and you'll find a lot of the missing output is due to us spending our early twenties learning fundamentals that would've been accessible in gradeschool.

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>>9020840
>Compare the /sci/-recommended non-brainlet curricula to what most of us actually experienced
>he fell for /sci/'s memelist

>>9005828
2*5+1=11

6
Q.E.D. :^)

>>9019792
>california
>best state
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

>>9022753
We produce like 3/4 of America's food.

We have Silicon valley and Hollywood.

We have the best weather.

We have the most attractive people.

We are the most progressive and everyone else follows our lead.

Literally top 6 economy in the world that every poor state in the union depends on.

>>9022787
>We produce like 3/4 of America's food.

No, you produce a bunch of fucking almonds, oranges, and avocados. You don't produce corn, potatoes, wheat, etc in the volumes that other states do. Its all luxury bullshit.

>>9022796
The vast majority of fruits and vegetables are not "luxury bullshit." You think we need wheat more than we need spinach and oranges? How fat are you?

>>9022803
>You think we need wheat more than we need spinach and oranges?

>US Production -
>Wheat : 55.4 million Metric Tons
>Oranges: 7.357 million Metric Tons