Local Math Whiz Wins Medal, Friends are Happy and Say So to the LA Times
Competitive instincts die hard down on Spring Street. In what must have been a flurry at deadline, Larry Gordon in the LA Times wrote a story on Terence Tao, a UCLA professor who won the Fields Prize for Mathematics. Five paragaphs into the story, we learn that the reporter never spoke to the guy.
Tao, who could not be reached for comment, won prizes in international math contests when he was 11 …
And then the story goes on about what a great guy he is, and that for a math whiz, he’s not a nerd.
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