I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.

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• Terence Tao:

  Math research is more like a marathon.

• Terence Tao:

  I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, ga

• Terence Tao:

  I always liked numbers.

• Terence Tao:

  I always liked situations where there were very clear rules of what to do.

• Terence Tao:

  You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on

• Terence Tao:

  It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People

• Terence Tao:

  When I was seven or eight, whenever I was getting too rowdy at night, my parents would give me a ma

• Terence Tao:

  I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance me

• Terence Tao:

  I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all

• Terence Tao:

  The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in maths, it's really quite good.