Terence Tao
Mathematician
1975-07-17
Books by Terence Tao
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Quotes by Terence Tao
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There might be a hidden structure in pi that we simply haven't discovered.
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Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.
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For me, I guess the main motivation is the satisfaction of finally understanding some tricky mathematical concept or phenomenon and then explaining it to others.
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Research sometimes feels like an ongoing TV series in which some amazing revelations have already been made, but there are still plenty of cliff-hangers and unresolved plotlines that you want to see resolved. But unlike TV, we have to do the work ourselves to figure out what happens next.
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I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.
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I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.
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