Terence Tao

I have a brother who did some CGI back in the day.

And like every time it's animated movie, he cannot enjoy the special effects because he knows how they were made.

So I remember watching one of these movies.

It's a movie called Gifted.

It stars Chris Evans and this amazing young character who is supposed to be this math genius.

And her mother was a math genius.

And she was working on an unsolved math problem.

And it actually was a problem that I worked on.

And at some point, they were going to review some of her notes on how she was making progress was the problem.

And I was actually quite interested to see what they would do.

And they actually showed a little snippet of her notebook.

And it was actually some equations from one of my papers.

Wow.

Okay.

Two years before the movie was made, I actually got an email from a director saying we're making a movie about a gift to get in math.

Could you supply some samples of some math computations that would look good?

And I actually supplied some from my own work, some from others.

And they said, thank you very much.

And I didn't hear from them for two years.

And then this movie came out.