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Is this guy is the greatest mathematician of our time?

>> No.5106234

Nope, I am.

>> No.5106246

That's the guy who solved the abc conjecture, right? If so, then this is like Ramanujan's notebook. It's so advanced that we have no idea.

>> No.5106247
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5106247

My favorite thread in all over the internet:

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/25402/is-the-green-tao-theorem-true-for-primes-within-a-given-arit
hmetic-progression

(see comments to the answer)

>> No.5106248

>>5106246
He's not.

>> No.5106250

>>5106248
Oh. Then who is he?

>> No.5106254

>>5106250
Terence Tao. Received his masters degree at age 16, and his phd at age 20. He has won a ton of awards for his work, and is the youngest person to ever won a fields medal.

>> No.5106258

>>5106254

Perelman is better.

He is the only person to win a clay maths award.

A lot of people have won a fields medal, only 1 person has won a fields medal and a clay maths medal.

>> No.5106266

>>5106258
a fields medal is definitely not Tao's only award, whereas Perelman is mostly known for his work on the poincare conjecture.
Tao has done a TON of work, and (in my opinion), receives far more praise than Perelman does.

>> No.5106282

>>5106266

Tao's work could be done by any other top Mathematician. Perelman work couldn't have been done by any other Mathematician.

Tao's not going to be known in a few years because he has done nothing special. He's done applied stuff with pdes and primes. Even then most of the work was done by Green.

>> No.5106283

>>5106254
Tao isn't the youngest Fields Medalist, he won it when he was about 30. Serre got his at 27, and is youngest recipient.

>> No.5106348

I'm born in a poor family, and I hate people who treat money as shit.

I hate Perelman because he refuse $1 million.

>> No.5106350 [DELETED] 

>>5106348
You're an entitled cunt then. Who the fuck are you that he should accept the money just so you don't feel bad?

>> No.5106381

>>5106230
Too early to tell, what he does very well is getting involved in blogging and getting people interested in fields outside of their own.

>tfw we will never have a universalist again

>> No.5106444

>>5106230
I didn't know Justin Long is a fucking mathematician, wow

>> No.5106445 [DELETED] 

>>5106350
>entitled

Here we go...

>> No.5106483

>>5106445
I don't know if that's the right word, but he's declaring people should behave in the way that he wants so he can feel better. That sounds pretty selfish.

>> No.5107310

holy crap this guy looks like me
[spoiler]and my name is Terrence

>> No.5107334

>>5106348
So, you hate him because he doesn't care about the same things as you?
Don't you think that's a bit pathetic?

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5107997

I would like a word with you.

>> No.5108000

>>5107997
One result, doesn't collaborate well with anyone, hasn't popularised any of his or anyone elses work. Perelman confirmed for one hit wonder

>> No.5108018

Well he's certainly a lot closer to the greatest than the majority of /sci/'s retarded suggestions (most of them popsci writers).

I really like his blog, where he strives to emphasise that although he is smarter than most, what he does isn't magic; it's just using the standard means of thought in a more advanced context, with lots of knowledge.

>> No.5108020

>>5108000
You don't understand or have not read his reasons for refusing the medal. Please do so before insulting this man.

>> No.5108043

>>5108020
did i mention the medal at all?

>> No.5108066

>>5108000
One result? Nope. He's made more contributions to the field, however you've only heard about the most popular.

Oh, and I nearly forgot to mention, "quantity over quality"!

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>>5106348

not sure if serious.

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>>5107997
>Grigori Perelman.
>reads the wikipedia article on him
holy shit, turned down a huge chuck of money because he finds the field unethical??
this guy is like the richard stallman of the math world

>> No.5108165

so in other words

>opinions

>> No.5108194

He's one of the top mathematicians alive right now. There are plenty others: Alain Connes, Vasek Chvatal, Grigori Perelman, Stephen Smale, Edward Witten, etc...

>> No.5108308

I think if the abc conjecture proof is correct, then the guy who proved it automatically gets that title.