Listening to words such as "genius boy" and "prodigy child" may make many people wonder, what kind of child can be called this way?The Big Bang of LifeAs one of the main characters, Sheldon is a "prodigy". In the play, he has an extremely high IQ and Iconic memory ability, and obtained a doctor's degree in his youth

Listening to words such as "genius boy" and "prodigy child" may make many people wonder, what kind of child can be called this way?

The Big Bang of LifeAs one of the main characters, Sheldon is a "prodigy". In the play, he has an extremely high IQ and Iconic memory ability, and obtained a doctor's degree in his youth.

Do you think that this character setting is too 'against the sky' and only exists in the virtual storyline? Let's take a look at the person to be introduced next. He is Terence Tao, a mathematical prodigy in the real world like "opening up".

At the age of two, he can simply read and calculate. At the age of seven, he went to high school; at the age of nine, he went to university. At the age of 24, he became a professor of UCLA. Einstein's IQ was 165, while Terence Tao's IQ was 230!

What is his current situation like? What kind of work are you doing again?

On July 17, 1975, Terence Tao was born into a Chinese family in Adelaide, Australia.

His parents immigrated from Hong Kong to Australia. Before immigrating, his father was a doctor, and his mother was a math teacher in a high school. Terence Tao showed his talent in math very early.

In an interview with a reporter, Terence Tao recalled:"My memory began when I was two years old. My grandmother was cleaning the windows of my home. I insisted on asking her to write numbers on the windows with foam of detergent."

Her mother, Liang Huilan, also noticed her son's precocious intelligence. She often took her young Terence Tao to do some number building block games.

Terence Tao himself said that his sensitivity to numbers and strong interest in mathematics were influenced by his mother.

When Terence Tao was three and a half years old, his parents agreed that the kindergarten curriculum could no longer meet his son's learning needs, so they contacted a local private primary school,This is also Terence Tao's first attempt to "skip the grade".

Despite Terence Tao's superior intelligence in mathematics, for him, who was still under four years old at this time, entering the classroom environment of primary school was a bit too hasty.

After a few weeks of trying,Parents also realized that such actions could turn into "pushing the seedlings too far", and ultimately decided to let their son return to kindergarten first.

A child with exceptional talents is indeed rare, but it is also a huge test for parents invisibly. Compared with ordinary children's path to higher education, Terence Tao's learning progress seems to have pressed the accelerator valve, but his physiological and psychological aspects are still in the child's stage.

He regarded elementary school mathematics textbooks as his "game book" and had already self-learning many mathematical knowledge by the age of five.How to correctly guide and cultivate a genius is a big problem faced by Terence Tao's parents.

In 1980, Terence Tao's parents still chose an ordinary public primary school after inspecting many local primary schools. The reason is very simple. The principal of this primary school took the initiative to provide more flexible education programs for Terence Tao's "special circumstances".

In this way, Terence Tao made his first formal grade jump in his primary school career. He passed through the two grades alternately. Usually, he took other courses with most second grade children,And in math class, I study with fifth grade students.

Soon, when Terence Tao was seven years old, he began to learn calculus by himself. Calculus is a branch of mathematics that can only be involved and used in Further Mathematics. Terence Tao only explored by virtue of his interest in mathematics.

The headmaster of this primary school also gradually saw that, in terms of Terence Tao's current qualifications and enthusiasm in the Areas of mathematics, if he continued to stay in the primary school, he would lose the original meaning of education, but also inhibit his learning field and growth space.

The principal helped to contact a local high school,After introducing Zhexuan's "special" situation, the high school principal agreed to let the seven year old child sit in on math classes at school.

The gifted youth who "took turns in class" in the two schools soon appeared in Adelaide's newspaper. It was mentioned in the article that Terence Tao's teacher said that he no longer needed to teach Terence Tao anything,His self-learning progress has far surpassed the course schedule.

When Terence Tao was 8 years old, he took the SAT test in the United States, which was equivalent to a college entrance examination. In the mathematics section, the maximum score is 800, and he directly scored a high score of 760.

After the results were released, everyone was shocked by the little boy's high intelligence in mathematics. Later, Terence Tao received an invitation from a professional IQ testing center in the United States,The test results show that his IQ index is as high as 230!

According to the assessment given by Professor Gross of the University of New South Wales, who studies the education of gifted children, Terence Tao has demonstrated amazing intelligence, which enables him to complete his university studies before the age of 12.

Later, Terence Tao chose to return to Australia to continue his studies.

When recalling his childhood experience, Terence Tao said:I have met many great mentors. When I was ten or eleven years old, I often visited a retired math professor in Adelaide on weekends. We had tea, cookies, and math discussions together

The professor will tell him how he used mathematics to carry out ballistic analysis during World War II, and Terence Tao is particularly interesting when he sees that mathematics can be used in real life.

At that time, Terence Tao had already mastered the reasoning ability of Mathematical logic.

In 1986, the 27th International Mathematical Olympiad was held in Poland(hereinafter referred to as IMO)On the other hand, Terence Tao was not yet eleven years old and won the bronze medal as a middle school student. This is his first time participating in the IMO and the youngest contestant in IMO history, and no one has broken this record to this day.

In the following two years, he successively pocketed silver and gold medals. Such a proud achievement also made the name Terence Tao spread in the mathematical world.

It is worth mentioning that in 1988, the 29th International Mathematical Olympiad held in Australia gathered 268 contestants from various countries.

This year's test paper has a total of six questions, selected from submissions from various countries.Each question has 7 points, totaling 42 points. The first five questions are from Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia, the UK, Ireland, and Greece, while the sixth question is from Germany.

Most of the players almost fell on the sixth question. Terence Tao only got 1 point on the sixth question,This has also become the lowest scoring rate in the 29 years since the IMF was held.

Fortunately, Terence Tao won almost all of the first five questions with full marks. His final score was 34 points, and he successfully won the gold medal with 2 points more than the gold medal line. At this time, he had just turned 13 years old, and this competition also made him the youngest gold medal winner at IMO.

In the interview with Terence Tao when he was an adult, some reporters also mentioned this legendary sixth question to him.

Terence Tao replied regretfully:At that time, I didn't do it right. This question was very famous, and I deeply remember that as soon as the Olympics ended, I saw a Romanian female contestant work out this question, and I even searched for her

Solving this problem requires a special method, which is not the standard method we learned at the time. We need to use the descent method... Perhaps now it has become a part of standardized training in (Olympiad math)... I want to get the answer more than winning or losing (the competition)

In fact, there are a lot of Olympiad medal winners who have not continued to work in the Areas of mathematics. Professor Elias M. Stein, the winner of the Wolf Prize, once served as Terence Tao's mentor and commented that:"Terence Tao is a rare person who can be good at both mathematical olympiad and scientific research", "he is a once-in-a-century genius".

Terence Tao's all the way jump made him enter the Flinders University in Australia at the age of 14. When ordinary people were still in the third day of junior high, he was doing mathematical research in the university.

Terence Tao later mentioned that his classmates were five or six years older than him on average at that time, but he felt that the age gap did not bring him discomfort and discomfort, because everyone was the same from the mathematical level, and would also be confused by a homework problem taught by the professor, and would discuss various mathematical concepts together.

It only took three years for him to complete his master's program in his alma mater and prepare to study for a doctorate. When he hesitated to choose a school, the famous mathematician Eldesh Terence Tao met as a child wrote a Letter of recommendation for him, recommending him to go to Princeton University to study for a doctorate.

Princeton is one of the top universities in the world, Ivy League,It was here that Terence Tao's experience of an exam became a turning point in his career.

Terence Tao is too good at self-study, which leads to no attendance and no systematic learning method:

If the teacher's topic interests me, I will experiment with other mathematical methods myself, trying to replace the solution steps given by the teacher. If the teacher's topic doesn't interest me, I will start to wander or doodle

After entering Princeton University for a doctoral degree, Terence Tao went his own way and still only took the courses he was interested in. Those courses he was not interested in were all skipped. He spent most of his time playing online games, sometimes even staying up all night.

In one exam, he didn't pay much attention and only spent more than ten days preparing,Because the defense he chose was Harmonic analysis and Analytic number theory, which he regarded as his strengths.

However, the exam did not go as smoothly as he imagined, even though most of the content was studied during his master's period, he still fell off the hook.

When recalling this exam later, he said, "I can only vaguely recall a basic conclusion, but cannot accurately describe and provide proof... Later, the examiner saw my embarrassment and only asked some simple questions, such as asking me to derive the Laplace fundamental solution

The barely passed exam changed his idea, because Terence Tao expected to get a good result in the exam,Unexpectedly, the performance was abnormal.

Once he changed his learning attitude in the past, he also put the game on the shelf. For Terence Tao, this lost exam experience can serve as a fulcrum and establish a career as a mathematician.

In 1996, at the age of 21, Terence Tao successfully obtained his doctorate,And was appointed as a full professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999Becoming the youngest professor in the history of the school.

The theorem points out that the prime number sequence contains Arithmetic progression of any length. It is also equivalent to that there is a Arithmetic progression composed of prime numbers with the number of terms k, and k can be any natural number. This theorem marks another milestone success in the Areas of mathematics and has stirred the whole mathematical world.

In the summer of 2006, Terence Tao, only 31 years old, attended the award ceremony at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM).

For his extraordinary contribution to the Areas of mathematics, the General Assembly awarded him the Filz Medal, which was awarded to him by King Carlos I of Spain.

This medal has always been regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics and the highest honor in mathematics.Terence Tao also became the second Chinese to win the Filz Prize after Professor Shing-Tung Yau, the first Chinese mathematician, won the Filz Prize in 1982.

In recent years, Terence Tao has won countless mathematical awards. Many of his colleagues admire his academic achievements and call himMozart in Mathematics.

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