Terence Tao has spent decades solving problems most people can’t even state. And he says he’s never had a single eureka moment. In this interview, the legendary mathematician breaks math down into six essential ideas: numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics, and shows how they took us from counting sheep to quantum mechanics, wir…
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