>be born in shittyvietic union
>can't go to best math university
>somehow manages to be in harvard by 21
>gets to work with ed. witten and others
>literal genius
>offered a fortune to go to berkeley
>express his feelings in a touching movie about math
>alpha as fuck
>beautiful
how can anyone even compete?
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His memoirs are pretty interesting even though he is a bad writer. I highly recommend his book.
I like him, but he's definitely not a genius and he would tell you that himself.
Poor attitude. There is always someone better than you. With that attitude, you will feel like you are a failure for life. Enjoy living in failure.
Also what do you mean "somehow". He had some of the best goddamn support ever. Great family friend tutor from early childhood. Great adviser giving him ideal projects while he was still an undergrad etc.
The Frenkel was lucky as fuck. He deserved his success, but he had more support than 99% of mathematicians.
I'm already living that life and I'm not even out of fucking undergrad.
> express his feelings in a touching movie about math
What's the name of that movie user?
>heavy russian accent
> I'm already living that life
What life? A successful one?
You mean, "Rites of Love and Math"?
I've seen this guy on numberphile.
That probably means he is an accomplished researcher, way beyond the likes of scum like Terry Tao, who doesn't even have a numberphile video. TOP KEK.
Is appearing on a numberphile video more prestigious than a fields medal?
> What life? A successful one?
You know which one, and thanks for the movie.
You anons would love my gf. She loves things like this, but I think alot of it is hype and meme shit.
The Dark Prince appeared on Numberphile and is 1000 times the man Terry is.
Cedric would skewer that chump in a rapier duel to the death and you know it.
> You anons would love my gf
That's a forbidden word.
> She loves things like this
Things like what?
Dakimakuras don't count as gfs user
Oh, sorry. Well, there are pros/cons to everything, and I have no idea how long we will be together.
She would just fit in with Veeky Forums's culture so well. She's intj, likes marijuana the few times she has tried it, reads books on math for fun, is always well aware of the newest intellectual cultural references (e.g. made me watch "Rites of Love and Math" as soon as it came out), etc.
I assumed dakimakuras meant that large pillow thing, but I honestly had to Google the word.
I don't know how you are familiar with the word. I can take an educated guess though...
Good Will Hunting?
A Beautiful Mind?
The only two popular math movies I could think of.
His Twitter feed is a liberal, whiny, wasteland of garbage political crap. Other than that, he's an ok guy. He should REALLY stick to math. He's a brainlet outside that realm. I mean he does work at the center of communist thought -- Berkeley.
Fields Medalist winner Cedric Villani is a thousand times better at both speaking to the general public about math and at not being a whiny little bitch with a terrible accent. I recommend Villani over him any day.
I keked
DONT TALK SHIT ABOUT TERRY!
He got gold at the IMO when he was just 13 and he is really passionate about maths. His blog is amazing and you can really see maths is his true calling and hes not just some olympiad kiddo
Isn't that the guy that dresses like a faggot though?
He's french
Yes, that's what I meant by faggot.
he enjoys his spider brooches
I lol'd
This is true for like 99% of super artist in top math departments- yet they have hero worship.
If you take a really smart but poor kid from Louisiana and give him the same opportunities he would achieve the same.