Terence Tao
speaker
3,298 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Terence Tao’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For example, one thing that's very popular right now are math circles.
So groups of kids anywhere from kindergarten to high school, they meet on the weekends.
There are these volunteer graduate students, for example, presenting them some area of modern mathematics, but in a very accessible way and outside of the classroom environment where they get to experiment and play.
And these are very popular.
There's one here at UCLA, and it's like 10 times as many kids trying to get in as we have slots.
And once a kid is interested in mathematics, the Internet is an amazing resource these days.
There's so many excellent high-quality educational materials, YouTube videos, there's some excellent YouTube bloggers right now, and even Wikipedia.
The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in math it's really quite good.
But the bottleneck really is getting the kids interested in math in the first place.
And I think it's really having the right math teacher is crucial.
Yes, you had a woman in your story, didn't you, in school?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
She was amazing.
She took time to personally, you know, so I would hang out in her office quite often.
She would teach me Latin, because I was curious about it, and she knew it.
Yeah, actually, the principal at my high school and my primary school were always very accommodating.
I had a very unusual schedule.
They designed sort of a tailor-made curriculum for me, which was great.
I'm still a bit stunned.
I was not expecting this at all.
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