@QuantaBks publisher; @QuantaMagazine founding editor; former @nytimes, @ScienceWriting; author list: Terence Tao, David Tong, Kevin Hartnett
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That feeling when you hold Terence Tao’s SIX MATH ESSENTIALS in your hands for the first time! What an amazing journey it’s been working with Terry to bring this book to the world. So grateful to him for trusting @QuantaBks with his first popular math book. In stores Nov 10!
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Honored to host the great Terence Tao to celebrate the launch of his book, Six Math Essentials...and to discuss the AI Mathpocalypse...@PioneerWorks_ Sunday
pioneerworks.org/programs/te…
Mathematician Terence Tao introduces readers to six core ideas that have shaped mathematics. Welcoming, wise, and “full of piercing insight” (@benorlin), SIX MATH ESSENTIALS is available today, wherever books are sold: quantabooks.org/terence-taos…
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Mathematician Terence Tao introduces readers to six core ideas that have shaped mathematics. Welcoming, wise, and “full of piercing insight” (@benorlin), SIX MATH ESSENTIALS is available today, wherever books are sold: quantabooks.org/terence-taos…
Pretty rare to have two big (lowercase) math books come out in the same day. Everyone should absolutely buy Steve’s book, along with Terry’s. In many ways I suspect they go hand in hand.
‘Big Math’ is here, and humans can shape its potential -- read an excerpt here sciencefriday.com/articles/b…
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Mathematician Terence Tao's new book introduces six core ideas that shaped the field of #math.
Out today from @QuantaBks: bit.ly/4emmCXv
ALT A stylized portrait of a person in glasses surrounded by floating golden geometric shapes, mathematical formulas, and graphs against a dark purple hexagonal background.
Another terrific piece by my old colleague and partner in crime. Really loving her new column over at my former former science desk @NYTScience.
For Other Worlds, I wrote about findings by the astronomer Sara Seager and her son Max that challenge "water chauvinism" in astrobiology by showing that sulfuric acid could be the solvent for an entirely different kind of extraterrestrial life. nytimes.com/2026/11/10/scien…
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Happy publication day to Terry Tao! As I mention in the post below, SIX MATH ESSENTIALS is a gift of math insights, understanding, and empowerment. (It is also a gift to my teenage self, if only such a book existed back then!) quantabooks.org/terence-taos…
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Scott talks about Aaronson-Ambainis
scottaaronson.blog/?p=10295
The post points to a new exposition by Guy Blanc, Jordan Docter, Carmen Strassle, and Li-Yang Tan
guyblanc.github.io/AA_Exposi…
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My conversation with Ira Flatow on @scifri Science Friday! Just in time for the book launch tomorrow --> ‘Big Math’ shines a light on the hidden math that runs our world.
sciencefriday.com/segments/b…
Three simple steps to get a bookplate sticker hand signed by Terence Tao to attach to your copy of his new book SIX MATH ESSENTIALS (out tomorrow!)
Quanta Books is giving away 100 bookplates signed by Terence Tao! To receive a free signed bookplate, be one of the first 100 readers to:
1. Post a photo of your copy of his new book SIX MATH ESSENTIALS (out tomorrow!).
2. Mention your favorite math idea.
3. Tag @quantabks.
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The one and only @BradyHaran gets Terence Tao to open up about his writing process, math analogies, favorite books, and meat pies in Adelaide in his latest @numberphile video: Meat Pies and Math Essentials (with Terence Tao) youtu.be/p2AAz24AzU4?is=7QDY… via @YouTube
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We're excited to share Terence Tao's SIX MATH ESSENTIALS with readers in the U.S. and North American tomorrow! This is how the acclaimed Cornell math professor, New York Times bestselling author, and brilliant podcast host @stevenstrogatz described Terry's new book:
Love these timely explainers from @bgreene of @WorldSciFest!
Has AI cracked a Half-Century-Old Problem in Physics? | World Science Fe... youtu.be/sfKc2uoA9pA?is=8qgt…
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Ah, another beautiful question in quantum complexity theory solved! This one is due to Scott Aaronson and @AAmbainis, about the necessity of structure in a problem for exponential quantum advantage. This question inspired a lot of research and we collectively learned a lot about quantum computing from it.
The problem seemed ripe; this year it felt like we were closing in on it. The most recent (human-written) papers on it had solved special cases showing that parallel quantum algorithms cannot achieve exponential speedups for unstructured problems.
What is the next beautiful question in quantum algorithms that will spur another generation of learning and understanding?
* Guy Blanc, Jordan Docter, Carmen Strassle and Li-Yang Tan, Quantum Speedups Require Structure or Depth (arxiv.org/abs/2608.19158)
* Qipeng Liu, Saachi Mutreja (my fantastic student!), Parallel Quantum Advantage with Limited Adaptivity Requires Structure (arxiv.org/abs/2608.20297)
Today Physical Superintelligence PBC is announcing a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, one of the central open problems in quantum complexity, with major implications for quantum computing speedup.
psi.inc/research/aaronson-am…
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Speaking of talented communicators, @BradyHaran, the mastermind behind the @numberphile YouTube channel and podcast, is a fan of Terence Tao and his new book SIX MATH ESSENTIALS.
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Fields medalist Terence Tao is one of today’s most renowned mathematicians. Have you ever wondered how math looks from his bird’s-eye view? Ahead of the Nov 10 release of his new book SIX MATH ESSENTIALS, Tao maps out six of the field’s fundamental pillars.
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Here's an audiobook sample of the first section of BIG MATH, read by George Newbern. soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio…
Great @NewYorker profile of Terry Tao by the great Rivka Galchen. So many fun details I didn’t know about Terry, including his four cats, dog, and three rabbits. Somehow the profile neglected to mention he has a book coming out next week, but what are you gonna do? 🤷♂️
The great Terence Tao in the @NewYorker:
'Tao compared learning mathematics to watching “Emily in Paris,” a show that he and his wife enjoyed. “It’s completely ridiculous fluff, but it’s also fun. You learn the tropes, and you can kind of see how it’s going to go,” he said. “But if you’re just given a synopsis of the plot, like, ‘Here’s the premise, and this is what happens’—that’s not the point.” And, if you want to learn how to write your own show, “then it’s not helpful at all.”'
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Six days to go until the publication of SIX MATH ESSENTIALS by Terence Tao. @Bloomberg radio host, author, and investing maven Barry @Ritholtz called the book "beautiful and beautifully written."
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Astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, podcast host, and all-around creative genius @JannaLevin had this to say about Terence Tao's SIX MATH ESSENTIALS, which publishes on Nov 10, one week from today.
