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Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician, Fields medalist, and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences.
Kim Ung-Yong (Korean: 김웅용; born March 8, 1962) [1] is a South Korean civil engineer. During his youth, he was recognized as a child prodigy with the highest recorded IQ having scored above 210 on the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale, He entered university at the age of 4.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. American child prodigy (1898–1944) William James Sidis Sidis at his Harvard graduation (1914) Born (1898-04-01) April 1, 1898 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died July 17, 1944 (1944-07-17) (aged 46) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Other names John W. Shattuck Frank Folupa Parker Greene Jacob ...
Goldbach’s Conjecture precipitated from letters in 1742 between German mathematician Christian Goldbach and legendary Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, considered one of the greatest in math ...
The three brothers' sister Celia M. Witten earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University [10] and then an M.D. from the University of Miami. [11] Edward Witten is the son of Lorraine (born Wollach) Witten [ 12 ] and Louis Witten , a theoretical physicist specializing in gravitation and general relativity .
[6] [17] [18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. [19] Hawking was born in Oxford into a family of physicians.
As a student at Harvard in the 1970s, Bill Gates impressed more than one faculty member with his mathematical brilliance. He proposed an elegant solution to what's known as "pancake sorting," and ...
James Harris Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. [4] At the time of his death, Simons' net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 55th-richest person in the world. [4]