Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.
Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing. - Terence Tao
Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.
- Terence Tao
... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely. - Terence Tao
... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and sho… - Terence Tao
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and sho…
Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response. - Terence Tao
Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number… - Terence Tao
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number…
Volume grows spatially slower than scaling. - Terence Tao
Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.
Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so. - Terence Tao
Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.
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