[grape_surgeon]

I love how well-spoken Tao is. I've enjoyed lots of his lectures before; even if you're not an expert in whatever he's discussing he knows how to explain it just right to get you up to speed as best as he can. His communication and math skills are phenomenal.

[xanderlewis]

Yes! He’s a great counterexample to the popular view that mathematical/pure logical reasoning ability is negatively correlated (even zero-sum) with communication ability. Yes, there are people that are crap at one and quite good at the other… but you can’t make much of an inference when given one without the other.

[tadala]

Is this a popular view? I think mathematicians can be odd, but usually they communicate quite well. I think as far as popularization of their fields go, mathematics is probably doing the best out of the lot: numberphile, 3blue1brown etc.