When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem. — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight, whenever I was getting too rowdy at night, my parents would give me a maths workbook… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
A lot of the math that I do, it's not sort of premeditated. I talk online or with a colleague, and I… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I recall being fascinated by numbers even at age three and viewed their manipulation as a kind of game. — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
One can think of any given axiom system as being like a computer with a certain limited amount of memory or processing… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics - for… — Terence Tao Copy Share
Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this. — Terence Tao Copy Share
Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing. — Terence Tao Copy Share
My life is more than just my work. I am a husband and a father and a proud citizen of two countries: my homeland… — Terence Tao Copy Share
If there is something that I should know how to do but don't, it bugs me. I feel like I have to sit down… — Terence Tao Copy Share
The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the… — Terence Tao Copy Share
One can think of any given axiom system as being like a computer with a certain limited amount of memory or processing power. One… — Terence Tao Copy Share
When I was seven or eight, whenever I was getting too rowdy at night, my parents would give me a maths workbook to work… — Terence Tao Copy Share
It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead. — Terence Tao Copy Share
