#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
- Published
- June 15, 2025
- Duration
- 3h 23m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Apr 17, 2026
Discusses science, society, culture, philosophy, technology.
Summary
Terence Tao is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He won the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and has contributed to a wide range of fields from fluid dynamics with Navier-Stokes equations to mathematical physics & quantum mechanics, prime numbers & analytics number theory, harmonic analysis, comp…
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Terence Tao is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He won the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and has contributed to a wide range of fields from fluid dynamics with Navier-Stokes equations to mathematical physics & quantum mechanics, prime numbers & analytics number theory, harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, random matrix theory, combinatorics, and progress on many of the hardest problems in the history of mathematics. Thank you for
Themes
- science
- society
- culture
- philosophy
- technology