I can understand getting downvoted for tone, but I disagree with the downvoting as I was just trying to state facts. The thought process here seems to be: Terr

I can understand getting downvoted for tone, but I disagree with the downvoting as I was just trying to state facts. The thought process here seems to be: Terry Tao is a brilliant researcher, therefore why he wrote here must be great. I thought one of the tenets here is that work should stand on it's own value and not on who did it, especially when so young. The typical Princeton student would do better on this, and if you really want to see a good one you can check Bhargava, Venkatesh, etc. I was going to go through this qual and give examples but nearly every paragraph has something bungled. It you have any particular questions, I'd be happy to respond