Terence Tao

And it did extend the numbers.

So a couple quadrillion, I think, or 10 to the 18, 10 to the 19, we could do from this crowdsourcing.

But no matter how much you do, there's still an infinite number of numbers left to go.

So if you want to roll out all the numbers, you need...

You need proofs.

You need to use mathematical laws over all numbers.

Otherwise, it's not elegant and it's not even interesting.

So I worked on this a couple of years ago.

I proved a result that if you take a really large number, like 10 to 15, 10 to 20, whatever, I could show statistically that 99% of all numbers that are very, very big

would become very, very small and become much smaller than where they started.

I couldn't show they hit one, but I could show that 99% of all numbers become as small as say the logarithm of the number.

So like 10 to the 20, I could show drops down to 20, 10 to the 100 drops down to 100.

So in mathematics, we very much value partial progress.

They're very good.

Yeah.

We can't solve completely, but we are happy with half a loaf or 99% of a loaf because someone else can build upon that.

Are you one of those guys?

I enjoy those movies mostly for the non-math part of it.

Now, maybe if there's an expert in schizophrenia, they would be complaining about that, but saying that the math was very, was very cool.

I think this is common.