>But he's the smartest mathematician in the worldWho cares? I can ask AI to solve math problems for me too but neither the chink nor AI can solve the Riemman's hypothesis, to which both are utterly useless because neither have made any scientific breakthroughs like Newton, Einstein, Tesla, etc. have.He might as well go back to whatever asian country he's from and make mukbangs of eating bugs instead, not more or less useless than what he currently is now.
>>16929803Lmao someone got filtered by Tao's analysis book.
>>16929803Tao gets more bitches than you guaranteed
The whole sort of cult of personality around his is very reddit
can you stop being racist for once
>>16929803He might not have revolutionised math but at least he has a job that isn't cleaning public toilets or something like all the other child prodigies
>>16929803We've been through this. Scientific breakthroughs are harder to make now because the low hanging fruits have been picked. Mathematicians and scientists these days are toolmakers, they build the tools that future generations will use to eventually solve them.
>>16929871Just make up new math and publish easy results from there.
Tao doesn't deserve his reputation among the best contemporary mathematicians. He's aged well and doesn't look it but he's now 50 years old so his career is basically over. The only thing he really did was compressed sensing which is an applied math topic. Every single thing he's done he worked with coauthors extensively including that but is only remembered for it because of a reddit personality cult. He almost failed his quals in analysis and didn't even know the fundamental solution of Laplace's equation but was pushed through the program anyway>The exam started off reasonably well, as they asked me to present the harmonic analysis that I had prepared, which was mostly material based on my master’s thesis and specifically on a theorem in harmonic analysis known as the T(b) theorem. However, as they moved away from that topic, the shallowness of my preparation in the subject showed quite badly. I would be able to vaguely recall a basic result in the field, but not state it accurately, give a correct proof, or describe what it was used for or connected to. I have a distinct memory of the examiners asking easier and easier questions, to get me to a point where I would actually be able to give a satisfactory answer; they spent several minutes, for instance, painfully walking me through a derivation of the fundamental solution for the Laplacian.No revolutionary ideas, no big theorem. Just coauthors a ridiculous amount of papers and was a "child prodigy" doing olympiads and got a degree at 16 after being tutored for an entire childhood by Paul Erdos after his Asian immigrant parents made him be a monkey doing calculus problems to try and brag to other Asian immigrant parents and midwits think that's being a great mathematician. The best living mathematician is Jean-Pierre Serre, but he won't be alive much longer because he is almost 100 years old. But we could pick probably one hundred who are better mathematicians than Tao.
>>16929803>solve the Riemman's hypothesis,>theyou are worried about tao when you should be worried about escaping your favela>>16929896>No revolutionary ideasusing lie derivatives in nvst is more revolutionary than anything you will do in your entire life
