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0 pointsalisonkisk1mo ago0 comments

There are probably hundreds of people on this site who had the same enthusiasm for math and time dedication as Terence Tao, but lacked his extreme outlier fluid intelligence, processing speed, perfect memory, and even handwriting talent(!). Terence Tao mastered calculus at an age when most future-mathemician geniuses weren't yet strong readers of chapter books.

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jama21129d ago

I mean I can make up any speculation too if you want. I seriously seriously doubt your claim. It’s extremely extremely rare to find “3-4 hours of maths textbook reading” levels of enthusiasm in 7 year olds.

I don’t doubt he’s talented too. But, it’s a chicken and egg problem and I’m sick of people pretending it isn’t.

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jama21129d ago

I don’t doubt he’s talented too. But, it’s a chicken and egg problem and I’m sick of people pretending it isn’t.

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