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Can someone provide a tl;dr on him/why he’s important?

• npsomaratna 1y ago
  Fields medal winner. Arguably the greatest living mathematician.
  • Zr01 1y ago
    Some would argue more for Wiles or Perelman on account of solving long-standing conjectures.
    • achierius 1y ago
      Top three greatest living mathematician, perhaps?
    • Analemma_ 1y ago
      I think what gives Tao the title is how multidisciplinary he is. He can wander in to a new subfield of mathematics and start making SOTA contributions after not very much time, which is a rare thing.
• somezero 1y ago
  Gauss 2.0; He’s very prolific, very famous in the math community. In this context, he is noteworthy because he’s taking automated theorem proving seriously which destigmatizes it for other pure mathematicians.
• 4gotunameagain 1y ago
  Yes, google can provide that in like 3 seconds, human parsing included.