"At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate."

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Source : Terence Tao (2012). “Topics in Random Matrix Theory”, p.2, American Mathematical Soc.

Terence Tao

#Numbers Quotes #Space Quotes #Calling Quotes

“In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.”
“I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.”
“I put an octopus in aquarium, and it would eat the others. But if you put an octopus in with a school of tiny fish, he might not be able to catch them. That's an archetypal structure: a powerful individual versus the multitude, the crowd. You can relate to that.”
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
“Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.”
“At least I had that, one guy understood me.”
“Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.”
“You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.”

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