Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:58:53 UTC No. 16284332

>>16284327
Actually it's the Collatz conjecture which is Tao's number one goal, he just hides it.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:59:14 UTC No. 16284333

>>16284327
correct
not that this is any of your business, anyway.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:04:52 UTC No. 16284339

>>16284333
Yea, definitley doesn't make you a retard to think that this is the #1 most important thing to be focused on mathematically

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:08:25 UTC No. 16284341

>>16284327
I'd spend the rest of my life trying to write an authentic proof that there are arbitrarily long prime APs.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:11:29 UTC No. 16284344

>>16284341
Yea, imagine being on your deathbed, and you spent your whole life trying to figure out whether or not there are an infinite amount of 3 and 5s, I guess if pridefully wasting your whole life, talent, and intelligence, on something so trivial, and pointless, if that's what makes you happy, so be it

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:17:08 UTC No. 16284350

>>16284344
Watch Memento and ask yourself who put 3s and 5s in your crosshairs.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:17:49 UTC No. 16284352

>>16284341
>>16284344
I mean, whatever gets you into the history books right? Hell I'd get rejected from artschool and invade Poland if it meant people would remember my name forever.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:20:19 UTC No. 16284355

>>16284352
It would be easier to just change your name to be the same as a famous person.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:21:46 UTC No. 16284359

>>16284352
I'm sure the person who solves the 3, 5 conjecture, will certainly have the same nortoriety as the person who invades poland. Because just like how 99+% of people know about the poland invasion, I'm sure 99+% also know about the 3, 5 problem, the problem of our time of course

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:24:52 UTC No. 16284362

>>16284359
No of course, but even better the smartest people in the world will know you solved the 3-5 conjecture, and from there you can gloat over the people who gloat over brainlets, which would be extremely satisfying.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:27:42 UTC No. 16284368

>>16284362
That is true, but you can gloat over them over the fact that they genuinely think the 3,5 problem is an important thing to waste so much time and effort on whilst being so retarded by thinking that it's actually important and that you're not just wasting all of your god-given intelligence and talent

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 02:08:59 UTC No. 16284417

>>16284368
True, but it's not so much that the 3-5 problem is important, but that only a small subset of the planet can genuinely understand it and how difficult the problem it. It's the exclusivity that leads to the superiority, because nobody cares what stupid people think.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 02:31:36 UTC No. 16284430

Imagine being the most retarded person, the best at writing nonsense, doing university level mental gymnastics before the age of 10, now if you were this person, what would be your number 1 goal in life, your number one dream, the thing that you found the most mesmerizing, the most important, especially being the greatest retard ever?
The thing that you would find to be the most important in life is making a thread about Terence Tao in /sci/.
This is clearly the question of our time, and definitley not a waste of intelligence, talent, time, and priorities.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 02:32:55 UTC No. 16284431

>>16284332
The fact that he hasn't solved it already proves he's just a midwit after all. Anyway it's obviously true.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 05:51:25 UTC No. 16284577

>>16284417
So much time and effort, for something so pointless, because it's "difficult", and it satfisies your vain desire for ego satiation, which winds up being the entire value of the problem. At least musicians for example, will make fantastic music, that is extremely challenging to make, but it is timeless, people with massive egos sure, and that might be their drive, but they literally create timeless masterpieces. Here, we have something hard, like if there are infinitely many 3 and 5s, but let's be real, nobody will know and care about anyone who solves it, not because they're just dumb, mindless sheep who just can't understand the sheer galaxy-brain brilliance of people like Terence Tao, it's because all of that galaxy brain for infinite 3 and 5s? It's about as valuable as somebody playing a video game really fast, it's not like Einstein theory of relativity, or hell, at least Ed Witten utilize mathematics for his violin theory, criticize string theory all you want, much more interesting than infinitely many 3 and 5s, which is why everyone has heard of String Theory, but nobody has heard of the 3 and 5 problem, but it's literally pointless, and this whole notion of I'm a super brilliant and talented mathematician, so I'm going to be focusing on 3 and 5 problem for my whole life, and never solve it and die, really shows the waste of brilliant mathematicians, no wonder all of these fields in the formal and natural sciences have stagnated for decades, it's not merely because of all of the low-hanging fruit copium narrative that retards keep spreading, it's because all of you have the wrong priorities, and anyone who is a detached, neutral, third-person observer, will look at you all and be like, wow your priorities make all of you really fucking retarded. This is why I have to take up the role of revolutionizing all of these fields singlehandedly

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:30:58 UTC No. 16284680

>>16284327
If I was as smart as him, my number one goal is to spread my genes. This world needs more intelligent life forms.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:49:52 UTC No. 16284690

>>16284577
We all get caught up in local competitions, not all of which matter. Why do you try to excel at your job? How much do you think it matters if you did?

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:50:48 UTC No. 16284691

He's a mummy professor boy, a good kiddo, albeit a little bit socially stunted, a bucko who can solve math problems because his father made him do so since he was 3 or 4.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:54:19 UTC No. 16284752

>>16284327
Picking mushrooms, undisturbed.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:57:50 UTC No. 16284814

>>16284327
Maybe he just spends his time in the moment, appreciating the little things, like the nice weather or the view.
Zeke certainly wished he did so.
Maybe leave the big problems to the other human-beings.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:09:38 UTC No. 16284899

>>16284327

>doing university level calculus before the age of 10

>By age eight, von Neumann was familiar with differential and integral calculus, and by twelve he had read Borel's La Théorie des Fonctions.

Out-geniused by Johnny

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:43:08 UTC No. 16285069

>>16284327
>best at mathematics
Which famous unsolved problem did he solve? Even literal-who Yitang Zhang has produced more impressive output in the last 15 years.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:37:52 UTC No. 16285151

Why don't we encourage every child to work towards being familiar with differential calculus by that age? I'm just talking about self-study Khan Academy level of familiarity really. Just about everything taught in HS Calc BC (So Calc1 and part of Calc2) is intuitive and with the abundance of learning technology, any gaps that come up (like anything trig related) can be filled in fairly quickly, even relative to a child's slower pace. It would allow the basics of things like physics to be taught rigorously from a much earlier age. People are "filtered" by what comes immediately after that typically, so everyone should be as prepared as possible for things like series to move forward in math.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:57:37 UTC No. 16285172

>>16285151
>Just about everything taught in HS Calc BC (So Calc1 and part of Calc2) is intuitive and with the abundance of learning technology, any gaps that come up (like anything trig related) can be filled in fairly quickly, even relative to a child's slower pace.
You have clearly never dealt with the learning disabled. And you don't realize that most children learn at a pace not much faster or better than the ones who are learning disabled.
Most children will struggle with even writing letters correctly until they're 8 or 9. Most children at the age of 8 can't meaningfully add or substract numbers and when they do, it's often because they simply memorized the table.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:00:26 UTC No. 16285174

>>16285172
Anon plz, is just the teaching methods

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:26:08 UTC No. 16285250

what the fuck is the 3 5 conjecture?

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:40:57 UTC No. 16285275

>>16285151
>>16285172

We don't need to encourage every child, but we should be teaching differential calculus much earlier to students in gifted and talented programs. I remember being introduced to square roots in the 2nd grade when I was about 7 and I certainly knew how to do multiplication and long division then. Teaching basic algebra and geometry throughout elementary school and calculus in junior high is certainly within the realm of possibility for "ordinary" gifted students. Having a class of students two or three standard deviations from the mean that can start learning graduate level math and physics by the time they are 17 should be developmentally possible if only it were politically feasible.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:05:08 UTC No. 16285316

>>16285172
I'm mostly basing this off of my own midwit self (lowest of the advanced math tracks at my schools, so 75th percentile or so) and my friends. I could definitely add or subtract as prompted at that age.

>>16285275
Gifted and talented programs often mean gifted and talented in everything. That is not always the case and certainly was not for myself. Math instruction needs to be "sped up" independent of other subjects. I also firmly believe that differential calculus is a lot more intuitive than so much of even introductory geometry or what you get in algebra 2 or a precalc class. Teach the non-intuitive bits of those ad-hoc.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:18:14 UTC No. 16285347

>>16285275
Too bad what you are describing would be considered antisemitic/white nationalist/pro Russia/Islamic extremist in todays cultural environment. If you don't support DEI and the elimination of "tracking" in education, then you a pro-Hamas antivaxxer and far-right Islamo-Bolshevik conspiracy theorist according to the contemporary educational establishment.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:24:23 UTC No. 16285361

>>16284327
finding a tall beautiful wife to improve my subhuman nerd genes
also find a way to genocide uggos

if all else fails, then just play vidya

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:25:05 UTC No. 16285363

>>16285347
Schizo post. Certain public school districts have already implemented teaching Calculus to all as the baseline like in Dallas.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:25:26 UTC No. 16285368

>>16285347
Is this written by AI? Yes I was implying that DEI is a problem but your post doesn't seem coherent even though it is using language roughly correctly at first glance

>>16285316
Maybe there could be gifted and talented schools that you could get in by scoring high in either language or math, and students can take advanced courses that suit their abilities (as well as classes for "fun" things like art and sports). I just want to see smart kids not held back and I agree that calculus could be taught earlier.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:06:43 UTC No. 16285439

>>16285316
>>16285275
>I'm mostly basing this off of my own midwit self
Of course, we could make things more challenging, Anon, but then the stupider students would be in here complaining, furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:18:18 UTC No. 16285575

>who's perelman
>who's willes

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:33:35 UTC No. 16285808

What's the 3 5 problem? Can't find anything about it.

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:48:06 UTC No. 16285824

>>16285808
It's OP's dull synecdoche for the primes.

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:59:18 UTC No. 16285833

>>16285824
I see. Seems like an interesting problem to solve.

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:24:18 UTC No. 16287092

>>16284327
Calculus at 10 is awesome, wish my parents were mathematicians or I would have developed the passion sooner, only did it at 18, not in school tho cause it's fucking europe

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:14:12 UTC No. 16287136

Tao was one of those domestic-project prodigies with helicopter parents. It was only natural that smarter dudes without those initial advantages would eventually overtake him in adult life.

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:57:07 UTC No. 16287195

>>16284899
I can't take seriously a guy who plays tennis in a suit.

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:55:19 UTC No. 16287284

>>16285368
That's a good idea. The reason I prefer a general encouragement of diff calc in particular is that it is actually readily applicable to other things and intuitive. By comparison, we did have a couple of those sorts of gifted and talented schools in my area and they tended to be more advanced in everything whereas I am just narrowly talking about math education. I'm advocating for a spicy diff calc before trig if anything.

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:22:11 UTC No. 16287315

>>16284752
The only right answer

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 21:12:26 UTC No. 16287760

>>16284327
Is Terry just some math nerd, or does he get pussy? Like, high-quality pussy?