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Comment author: [deleted] 11 November 2009 04:50:06PM 1 point [-]

Wow, rationality notes from maybe the most brilliant thinker of our times!

Congratulations on eliminating all the other candidates so easily!

Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 11 November 2009 09:52:27PM 2 points [-]

I challange you to name your candidates... ;)

There are an awful lot of great thinkers, but really rare are those kind of human beings that appear to belong to a different species.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 November 2009 10:24:15PM 1 point [-]

Well, I know very little about Terry Tao, so I'm going to say everyone else who's ever won a Fields Medal.

Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 11 November 2009 11:33:10PM *  6 points [-]

Not all Fields medalists are made equal... :)

Really: It's just a side effect that he got the Fields medal.

I don't know him personally, but I know several (unrelated) people personally who worked with him, and based on their stories + information available on the internet I was equally impressed by him before this medal event...

That guy simply has an impeccable record of achievements from age two on (disregarding a lot of other prizes)

  • age 2: Teaching himself arithmetics (from Sesame Streets)
  • 8: Scoring 760 on SAT in Mathamatics
  • 10: Winning bronze medal at International Mathematical Olympiad
  • 13: Winning gold medal at International Mathematical Olympiad
  • 17: Master in Mathematics
  • 20: PhD
  • 24: Full Professor at UCLA
  • 31: Fields Medal
  • 34(now) 140+ publications and 9 books in various different fields of mathematics, like: harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometric combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, analytic number theory, algebraic combinatorics and representation theory.
Comment author: Cyan 11 November 2009 05:18:14PM 0 points [-]

He hedged with "maybe".

Comment author: [deleted] 11 November 2009 05:48:40PM 0 points [-]

Should I have done something differently?

Comment author: Cyan 11 November 2009 06:51:05PM 4 points [-]

Maybe.

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