This week on pplpod, we dive into the extraordinary life of Terence Tao, the Australian-American mathematician widely regarded as one of the greatest minds alive. We trace his journey from a child prodigy who scored a 760 on the math SAT at age eight to becoming the youngest full professor in UCLA history at age 24,.

Tune in to learn about:

• The "Mr. Fix-it" of Mathematics: How Tao earned a reputation for helping frustrated researchers solve impossible problems, including his famous collaboration with Ben Green to prove that prime numbers contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions,.
• Major Breakthroughs: A look at his Fields Medal-winning work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, as well as his contributions to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Problem and the Collatz c ...