Terence Tao

Well, when we do crowd proposals, we sort of say, we will study this set of problems.

But even then, we don't promise, definitely by five years, I will supply a proof of all these things.

You promise to make some progress or discover some interesting phenomena.

And maybe you don't solve the problem, but you find some related problem that you can say something new about.

And that's a much more feasible task.

Again.

So, I mean, the problem is like a Riemann hypothesis.

Those are so far out of reach.

You think so?

Yeah.

There's no even viable strategy.

Like even if I,

activate all the cheats that I know of in this problem.

There's just still no way to get me to be.

I think it needs a breakthrough in another area of mathematics to happen first, and for someone to recognize that it would be a useful thing to transport into this problem.

So the natural numbers have two basic operations attached to them, addition and multiplication.

So if you want to generate the natural numbers, you can do one of two things.

You can just start with one and add one to itself over and over again.

And that generates you the natural numbers.

So additively, they're very easy to generate.