It just occurred to me that Terry Tao is probably one of the less good people to pursue here. He’s more of a popular, public figure type. Which, I assume, means that he is contacted by more people, and thus less receptive to things like this. Whereas there are surely other people who are similarly smart but way less popular amongst the general public. And with a quick email to, say, a PhD student in math, it’d probably be pretty easy to find out who these people are.
It just occurred to me that Terry Tao is probably one of the less good people to pursue here. He’s more of a popular, public figure type. Which, I assume, means that he is contacted by more people, and thus less receptive to things like this. Whereas there are surely other people who are similarly smart but way less popular amongst the general public. And with a quick email to, say, a PhD student in math, it’d probably be pretty easy to find out who these people are.