Introduction Terry Tao has never been afraid of unconventional ideas. In November 2014, he was on a panel of five distinguished mathematicians, all inaugural recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, which came with a $3 million award. The laureates’ conversation ranged from whether mathematics is invented or discovered — most of the mathematicians agreed that, at the very least, it feels like an act of discovery — to an assessment of the odds that we’re living in a digital simulation...