Terence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder, UCLA
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AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics: Terence Tao is UCLA's Collins Professor of Mathematics, and the first UCLA professor to win the prestigious Fields Medal. Less than a month after winning the Fields Medal, Tao was named a MacArthur Fellow. The following month, Tao was named one of "The Brilliant 10" scientists by Popular Science magazine, which called him "Math's Great Uniter" and said that "to Tao, the traditional boundaries between different mathematical fields don't seem to exist." Tao's AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics is titled "The Cosmic Distance Ladder." The American Mathematical Society (AMS) sponsors a series of public lectures in mathematics entitled The AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics. The lectures began in 2005, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Einstein's annus mirabilis. They are given annually at one of the Society's eight sectional meetings. The year 1905 marked the publication by Albert Einstein in Germany of three fundamental papers that changed the course of twentieth-century physics. Einstein later moved to the United States, where he became a founding member of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Sponsored by the American Mathematical Society Hosted by the UCLA Department of Mathematics, The Philip C. Curtis Jr. Center for Mathematics and Teaching and the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences. Additional support provided by the UCLA Chancellor's Office.
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Wow i wish I could be your math student
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I actually think I'd enjoy conversing with Tao, I love learning new things, also he seems like a cool guy to me,
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This dude need to relax ?
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Brilliant!
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just go play with your prime numbers because Langan is the one whose on the verge of and will forever change the world. Its Langan who answered what happens after you die along with reinventing quantum mechanics and our understanding of the cosmos and actually everything else as well. Not prime numbers or UCLA or Tao.
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What I predict: I understand the first two slides then I will just give up understanding ;)
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One whole month and no progress with a simple passage from Plato ?
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LOL giving a lecture in advanced mathematics in "Schoenberg Hall" (need to be a muso to get this)
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Can someone give me aspirin please
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Lol at you arrogant smartasses
You think you understand ancient metrology ?
Explain this passage from the Republic:
"Now for divine begettings there is a period comprehended by a perfect number, and for mortal by the first in which augmentations dominating and dominated when they have attained to three distances and four limits of the assimilating and the dissimilating, the waxing and the waning, render all things conversable and commensurable with one another, whereof a basal four-thirds wedded to the pempad yields two harmonies at the third augmentation, the one the product of equal factors taken one hundred times, the other of equal length one way but oblong,-one dimension of a hundred numbers determined by the rational diameters of the pempad lacking one in each case, or of the irrational lacking two; the other dimension of a hundred cubes of the triad. And this entire geometrical number is determinative of this thing, of better and inferior births."
I await your expert dissection of Plato's writings
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This was riddled with inaccuracies
Greek astronomers and mathematicians merely got credit for the problems worked out by Babylonian astronomers
This includes the mathematics of the three-body system and Saros periodicity
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54:09 Distance to Proxima Centauri should be ~ 25 trillion miles, not 25 billion....
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he s so great! <3
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he s so great! <3
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Extra credit 7b woooohoooooo.
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200+ IQ and he wastes his life on fuckin prime numbers. What a fuckin waste
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"How long did it take you to get the field's badge." Hehehe.
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Guy is super productive as a mathematician. Go check out his blog and all of the paper's he spits out. He has won a fields medal back in 2006 and in 2012 he proved that every odd number greater than 1 is the sum of at most five primes,without invoking the Riemann Hypothesis. This helps improve the status on proving Weak Goldbach's. The purpose of this lecture was obviously for the general public and more as a science history talk.
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