Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.
Terence TaoAt 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.
Terence TaoUltimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.
Terence Tao