An Interview with Terence Tao

Dr Terence Tao was interviewed by our Social Media Lead, Preyasi Gaur.

Dr Tao is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a Mathematics Professor at UCLA and has worked on a variety of topics in mathematics from probability theory to partial differential equations. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 “for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory.” Considered a prodigy, Dr Tao has a lot of feathers in his cap: youngest Mathematics Olympiad Medallist, youngest person to be made professor at UCLA at 24, and one of the youngest and first Australian Fields Medallist. He also maintains a Wordpress Blog: https://terrytao.wordpress.com

Check out the interview!

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
00:14 What first drew you to math?
01:36 To whom do you owe your math talent? (Who influenced you to do math?)
02:40 As a teenager, what did you want to do as a career?
03:58 What advice would you give to students who are interested in STEM?
05:22 What is the coolest thing you learned in math?
07:04 What is one thing nobody knows about your relationship in math?
09:35 What topic do you dislike in math?
11:13 What is the broad overview of your work? (What area of math do you focus on?)
13:06 What is your favorite movie or TV show?
14:56 Do you help your kids with math homework?
16:01 Do you connect with people through social media?
16:57 What do you do in your free time?
17:26 Can you speak a little Spanish for us?