The Test That Terence Tao Aced at Age 7

That's a lot of alliteration

A six years old writing a program? In the 80s nonetheless. Even by today's standard that would be extraordinary.

Is this stuff true?? I mean what 7 year old knows what DY/DX is??? So his parents taught him calculus that early? I hope none of this info is fabricated. This is just insanity

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Thanks for the video. The PDF link is not accessible anymore. Can you please reupload?

Isn't that good to be so talented in something so stupid. When did being a parrot make you a prodigy? Honestly, the human race needs new knowledge not useless garbage that always existed. True geniuses would have cured disease like cancer, or aids, you people are ridiculous to keep praising people that are talk and no product...
I believe in something called reality and real world application.
What a bunch of losers...

This voice makes me sleepy.

there's a mistake in the perfect number program in line 80

I don't understand one of the questions, please help me out. How can a right angled triangle have two sides with a length of 2 and a perimeter of 5?

Funny. I presented that folding question to my four year old daughter and as I expected she immediately picked out the rectangle.

my friend who is insanely good at maths and has been casually doing calculus since primary school knows that this is in large part due to kids that want to learn like him being pushed, many of my other friends including me are now capable of what he is but due to not being pushed ever and teachers just saying we were good at science and maths instead of "here research this youll be interested by it"
I feel like it needs to become a common part of teaching where teachers actually check if students would like to learn things they dont need to for their current tests and wont for years as pushing kids to pursue what they are good at and enjoy isnt done enough at all

Another tale of a savant with the right teaching and support at an early age. While this is a great thing, it also irritates me- as who knows how many brillaint people there are out there... that never had his kind of opportunity.

I mean every kid in China knows how to solve this by the age of 9. It's not THAT surprising in Asian countries.

Terry Tao is also just a super nice and humble guy!

He considered answering, "Fields is the name of the medal I will win in 2006," but decided to be unpretentious!

What really impressed me is, a kid who knows it all at 7 or is seen as smart usually gets an ego about things they are told they arent good at or dont know but think they should know cause they are smart. (this is kind of a tv trope imo idk how well it translates to irl)
But the moment this kid didnt know something his simple reply was "i dont know that" no excuses or anything. really good mind not just with math.

My head hurts looking at the first equation lol

Is the kid smart or is his father? Information just doesn't magically appear into a persons mind and children can learn as many languages as you expose them to when they are young. So if we all had parents that took time to teach us all that they really know, how much better would we all be?

To give an example. I live in Texas and when I was growing up, there were tons of kids that had parents from Mexico and the parents did not know english so the kids learned spanish but the kids had to learn english for school. I never met any other kids in that kind of situation that were not bilingual. They only reason why most kids don't know more than 1 or 2 languages is because they were only exposed to 1 or 2.

Calling someone a 7 year old when they took the test one day before their 8th birthday is quite disingenuous imho. Hold that thumbs down.

There is a story not being reveled here.Someone coached or showed him were too start.put him and his siblings on right track.something most kids don't get.

I knew the Creator of the video was aussie but then all i heard was a current affair

Wait, how did he got an answer wrong and still get 60/60?

Pity that most of it is theoretical and useless to everyday living

Updates or downloads to install rotation coordinations conspiracization conspiracization

So in short, if you don't have good parent's.
You could throw away all your potential.

I am discouraged and will be giving up maths.

what?

2 questions are impossible, right angle triangle with 2 sides 2cm cannot have perimeter of 5. Notebook problem needs total cost.

This makes me want to study ...

gifted child!! My child is gifted too but he is far far away from the super elite gifted like terence. my child scored 780/800 SAT Math and 34/36 ACT STEM and Math at age 11 to be in the .01 percentile to qualify for the Duke TIPS and Johns Hopkins gifted kid. In 9th grade, he took college calculus 1,2,3,. before 12th grade, he took like differential equation, linear algebra, discrete math, math for computer science. I think the trick is to get the kid to be interested in math at an early age. I think my kid was late to the game. If we've known, there are gifted kids schools like Robinson School at University of Washington and Davidson Academy at University of Reno, we (mom) would groom him earlier. He went to the gifted school at 9th grade instead of 5th grade. He loss a lot of expediated learning for sure.

These stories of child math prodigies rarely mention of effort put into the education of these kids. No these kids didn't just "know" the math conventions. Telling the story without that underlying component gives a false impression of the conditions that produce a child who can answer questions like this. Imagine if all kids were empowered with that same opportunity at an early age. The average math intuition would sky rocket.

If at 7 yo someone asked me what a field was, I would say "that's where me and the other kids play." BTW, I thoroughly enjoyed this!

i think the world dodged a bullet when his parents didn't introduce him to the world of superheroes and vilains.. since he didn't have any superpower, we all know what he would have chosen. Lex Luthor and Moriarty , step aside. :)

But what will he do when he faces these 24 inch pythons

Kid is likely a savant.

A field is a commutative ring, where every non-zero element has a multiplicative inverse . Im officially better than tao

I don’t know what’s nicer, your blue eyes or how pointy the end of your pencil is 😂

I was close to getting that good at math, but I hurt my knee tho.

He's so smart 😭😭😭

As a 142 IQ guy I can say that i didnt understand nothing

this aint fair

I am impressed, he was doing second year A Level Maths at 7 years old, normally for a gifted mathematician at 17 years old.

I'm such a slug.

Interesting

I am impressed, he was doing second year A Level Maths at 7 years old, normally for a gifted mathematician at 17 years old.

frying frying voice

My cousin that my mom always compare me with