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May 20, 2024 · Terence Tao is a mathematician who writes about his latest results and topics of interest on his blog. Read his posts on generalized Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, Gibbs variational formula, Lean 4 proof tour, and more.
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Terence Tao is a mathematician who works in various fields, such as harmonic analysis, PDE, combinatorics, and number theory. He also maintains a personal blog where he posts about his research, teaching, and other topics of interest.
Dec 6, 2023 · Terence Tao shares his experience of formalizing a lemma in Lean 4, a proof assistant for mathematics. He explains how he used a human-readable proof as a blueprint and applied various Lean tactics to complete the proof.
Feb 1, 2024 · Listen to the podcast episode where the Fields Medalist and prolific mathematician Terence Tao revisits his 2007 essay on the common ingredients in good mathematical research. He discusses the convergence of different values and perspectives in mathematics, and the role of beauty, elegance, rigor and applications.
Feb 7, 2007. Uploaded: “ What is good mathematics? ”, submitted, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. This (my first attempt at writing meta-mathematics!) is a solicited article on the (possibly dangerous!) topic of what constitutes good mathematics. My answer is a bit complicated: there are many possible metrics to measure quality mathematics, but the ...