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From video: The Greatest Mathematician of Our Time
Published: February 4, 2026

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How Terence Tao thinks. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. Check out my other videos: Isaac Newton https://youtu.be/n6lRdH1EzIo John Nash https://youtu.be/6XTSVrabKPc Grigory Perelman https://youtu.be/Gc4pwxr6ZDc Chapters: 0:00 The Rockstar Mathematician 0:06 A Child Prodigy in Australia 1:14 How Terence Tao Thinks 1:59 From Adelaide to Princeton 2:24 The Mystery of Prime Numbers 3:55 Compressed Sensing 5:06 Instilling Curiosity in His Kids 5:36 Turning Down a Hedge Fund 6:03 AI Solving Open Math Problems 7:13 Learning Math Intuitively: Brilliant Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Interview with Terence Tao from the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQTsdkgFAgw Paul Erdős and young Terence Tao image: Either Billy or Grace Tao, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Ben Green image: Renate Schmid, Copyright is with MFO, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE via Wikimedia Commons Tao, Werner, Okunkow: Gert-Martin Greuel, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE via Wikimedia Commons Emmanuel Candès image: Schmid, Renate, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE via Wikimedia Commons MRI machine: Ptrump16, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons