Terence Tao

and functions, and things that are within the scope of a high school math education to at least define.

But then there's this very advanced algebraic side of number theory where people have been building structures upon structures for quite a while.

It's a very sturdy structure.

At the base, at least, it's extremely well developed with textbooks and so forth.

But it does get to the point where if you haven't taken these years of study and you want to ask about what is going on at level six of this tower, you have to spend quite a bit of time before they can even get to the point where you can see something you recognize.

Yeah, that is a romantic, yeah, so it kind of fits with sort of the romantic image I think people have of mathematicians to the extent they think of them at all as these kind of eccentric, you know, wizards or something.

So that certainly kind of fits.

accentuated that perspective.

You know, I mean, it's, it is a great achievement.

His style of solving problems is so different from my own.

But, which is great.

I mean, we need people like that.

Can you speak to it?

Like what, in terms of like the, you like the collaborative.

I like moving on from a problem if it's giving too much difficulty.

Got it.

But you need the people who have the tenacity and the fearlessness.

You know, I've collaborated with people

People like that where I want to give up because the first approach that we tried didn't work and the second one didn't approach.

But they're convinced and they have the third, fourth, and the fifth of which works.