While I thoroughly enjoy Terry Tao's work and am a big admirer of his down-to-earth philosophy, I don't really understand why this particular article is so popu

While I thoroughly enjoy Terry Tao's work and am a big admirer of his down-to-earth philosophy, I don't really understand why this particular article is so popular. Indeed, the top comment (which made me LOL, btw) seems to reflect the same attitude. A much more accesible and enjoyable (though still somewhat technical) article is [this one] [1] [1] https://www.google.nl/amp/s/terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclaurin-formula-bernoulli-numbers-the-zeta-function-and-real-variable-analytic-continuation/amp/ https://www.google.nl/amp/s/terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/1...