To cheer you up in difficult times 23: the original hand-written slides of Terry Tao’s 2015 Einstein Lecture in Jerusalem

Combinatorics and more

In 2015 Terry Tao gave the Einstein lecture of the Israeli Academy for Science and Humanities. We got hold of the original signed hand-written slides of Terry’s lecture and we are happy to share them with you. The title of Tao’s talk was “Can the Navier-Stokes Equations Blow Up in Finite Time?”.  Here are the original slides! (With an additional page with my comments.)

The first page signed by Terry.

Addition: Let me mention a very recent post with the timely title “Why you shouldn’t be too pessimistic” by Igor Pak about conjectures. (And earlier posts on Conjectures, here and here.)

Update: There were recent developments regarding this topic including a recent talk by Terry Tao at MSRI – here is the video, and a paper “Constructing Turing complete Euler flows in dimension 3 by Robert Cardona, Eva Miranda, Daniel Peralta-Salas, and Francisco Presas. Here is a

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