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so has he accomplished anything big/groundbreaking other than being a child prodigy and having a high iq? serious question. i only know his name for being smar
by alkibiades 3y ago
so has he accomplished anything big/groundbreaking other than being a child prodigy and having a high iq?
serious question. i only know his name for being smart. not anything specific
- bglazer 3y agoHe won the fields medal, which is the effectively the Nobel prize for math, and has been cited nearly 100k times. Academically, these are extremely high level achievements. He’s contributed across very diverse fields of math, so it’s difficult to pin down his contributions to one thing in particular, but his most cited papers are fundamental to compressed sensing, which is both theoretically interesting and practically useful
- vietvu 3y agoBeing a great mathematicians not all about solving Millennium Prize Problems or being a household name like Einstein.
- Nevermark 3y agoI don’t know, I keep hearing about the Tao of this, or the Tao of that. I am sure no one has ever ever called him “The Tao of Math” before, but they have now! He is in it. Everywhere! Legacy Achievement: locked in :)
- wging 3y agoOff the top of my head, two big accomplishments are compressed sensing and the existence of arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions in the primes (the Green-Tao Theorem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green–Tao_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green–Tao_theorem). But there is more than that. It’s a very googleable question.
- eru 3y agoHave you tried asking your favourite search engine or even chat bot? See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Research_contributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Research_contribut...
- ramraj07 3y agoI will implore you or anyone to ask ChatGPT to “eli5 compressive sensing”. It was a fun honeymoon day for me with ChatGPT when I did that.
- genman 3y agoInteresting, but my first answers are essentially - use some clever math.