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A smart fellow indeed. He is one of the few people I know who has an insanely prolific online presence. His blog, What's New (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ h

by bdhe 15y ago

A smart fellow indeed. He is one of the few people I know who has an insanely prolific online presence. His blog, What's New (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/) has hundreds of detailed articles on various math topics and occasionally I find myself using it as a beginner's reference to detailed topics. He's also published his blog posts as books. It is astounding how one person can produce so much intellectual output! This is in addition to his mathematical papers and books (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/books/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/books/)

Cyph0n 15y ago
I was also surprised at the number of awards and honors he's acquired at an insanely young age. He even scored 760 on the SAT when he was only 8 years old!
lamnk 15y ago
Come on, he is a prodigy. The only person I know that have matched impressive ingenuity is Stephen Wolfram. Great, now after reading their bio, i'm feeling more depressed ... sigh
- leilavc 15y ago
  Great - now go and read this (http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to-be-a-genius-to-do-maths/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to...) to cheer yourself up.
- robertk 15y ago
  I hope that was facetious.
  - tzs 15y ago
    What part do you hope was facetious?
    - fictorial 15y ago
      The part about Wolfram.
      - william42 15y ago
        Wolfram was a child prodigy and is very smart. Even the very smart are prone to crackpottery.
- ww520 15y ago
  Math is hard. Let's go shopping!