Terence Tao on Proof, Beauty, and the Future of Mathematics
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Enhanced with helpful links, visit ConversationsWithTyler.com. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I'm very happy to be speaking with Terry Tao. He has a new and excellent, Six Math Essentials. Terry is arguably the greatest mathematician of his generation. He is a Fields Medal winner, a professor of mathematics at UCLA. And he has done research in topics as varied as harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics.
arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing, analytic number theory, and he writes a blog, and much more. Terry, welcome. Yeah, pleasure to be here. Now people often think of mathematics as about logic, but I'd like to start by asking you about emotions. And I'll name a few results in math.
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