UCLA’s Terence Tao: Losing support for research means losing our best and brightest

UCLA's Terence Tao, often called the "Mozart of Math" and widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician, has spent his career exploring pure mathematics, with results that often have implications far beyond the chalkboard - in science, technology.

In the video above, Tao discusses the importance of robust federal support for basic research and warns that funding cuts to higher education - including the suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants at UCLA - could irreparably damage the nation's scientific ecosystem and drive our top young scientists abroad.