Terence Tao

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3,298 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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You could actually use it for many things.

So it's now used in MRI scans and astronomy and all kinds of other domains.

Anything on the horizon now that you're working on?

Like that?

Nothing practical like that.

Yeah, so right now I'm working entirely on pure projects.

I still work with numbers.

I try to find patterns in the primes.

Prime numbers is what I'm, I guess, most known for.

I also work on the equations of fluid motion.

There's an old mathematical problem.

Can you make water blow up?

Is there any configuration of a fluid like water, which if you run the equations of fluids, it creates a catastrophe.

The fluid velocity becomes infinite.

You make an explosion.

We don't believe that's possible, but I'm trying to cook up a really special configuration of fluids that does that.

Or theoretical.

I'm not going to actually blow up anything.

Yeah, there's no really big national effort that I'm aware of.

I mean, there's lots of grassroots activities.

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