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Terence Tao

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3115 total appearances

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StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

It was not one for small talk or anything.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

So, yeah, so recently there's been a systematic effort to accuse.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

So there's a website which has collected over a thousand Erdos problems.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

Yeah.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

So, yeah, we just gave each Erdos problem a number.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

And this is the ticket that this number got.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

This problem got 1,026 Erdos.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

And there's been a systematic effort in recent years to solve these problems by any means possible.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

So some people use pen and paper.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

Some people use computers old school with lots of computations.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

And some people are using AI tools.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

And yeah, there was a recent problem, 1026, that got solved by a combination of all of these.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

Lots of people...

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

Throughout ideas, there was a discussion forum, and people used the latest AIs to gather some numerical evidence.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

I was involved a little bit.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

Yeah, so surprisingly, it's very decentralized.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

I mean, there was about five, six people involved, and there was just a chat room, and we just all spoke.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

We contributed ideas.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

It was a very respectful environment.

StarTalk Radio
Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

If we had to write it, we haven't written a paper.