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Hey math majors, how does it feel to know that this guy could go through your entire course in less than a month and do more ground breaking research in a semester than you could ever do in your whole life?

>> No.8288888

>>8288884
The essay a mathematician's lament is probably relevant. The problem with most students is that as you say they just go through a course.

>> No.8288889
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8288889

So?

>> No.8288890

>>8288884
Why can't he prove the abc conjecture if he's so smart?

>> No.8288891

>>8288884
Reassuring.

With gods like this guiding the field there's no way we can fail.

>> No.8288897

>>8288884
hi terence, please stop posting about yourself.

>> No.8288916

>>8288888
Can you give some practical steps that one could take to not just "go through a course"?

>> No.8288935

>>8288884
Tao hasn't done any interesting research.

"Groundbreaking" maybe, in the technical sense of telling us things we didn't know for sure, but his sense of taste is appalling.

>> No.8288973

>>8288916
Read the essay for a start.

>> No.8289082

>>8288935
Dude, so much this. We need another young Thurston, Grothendieck, Riemann, Galois, or Hilbert. There isn't a lot of "tasteful" and exciting math being done with perhaps the exception of Lurie.