Terence Tao: The Era of "Big M" Mathematics and "Big P" Physics Has Arrived
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-10
Ofir Press shares Terence Tao's new essay: typing code into a computer with your fingers already feels anachronistic, yet engineering remains challenging. Since a mathematician's job is far more than solving problems, we can finally take much more ambitious steps and revisit the big questions that have driven mathematics and physics for centuries — the era of "Big M" Mathematics and "Big P" Physics has well and truly arrived.
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