March Tian Boedihardjo (Chinese: 沈詩鈞) is a Hong Kong mathematician. He is a former child prodigy of ethnic Hokkien descent with ancestry from Anxi, Quanzhou, China.[1]
| Born | |
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| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Known for | Child prodigy |
Biography
editBoedihardjo was born to an ethnic Chinese family in Hong Kong, with family roots in Anxi, China.[citation needed] Boedihardjo moved to the United Kingdom in 2005, when his older brother Horatio began studying at the University of Oxford.[2]
Boedihardjo finished his A-level exams in Britain at the age of nine years and three months, after attending Greene's College Oxford.[3][note 1] He also gained 8 GCSEs.[2] He was accepted at Hong Kong Baptist University, making him the youngest ever university student in Hong Kong.[4] The university tailored a special 5-year curriculum programme for Boedihardjo which he criticized as being too easy and unstimulating on the first day.[5][6] He obtained A−'s and B+'s in most of his mathematics courses in his first year, which got him on the Dean's List.[7] He was conferred a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Science and a Master of Philosophy in Mathematics after completing his programme one year early in 2011.[8][9][10][11]
After graduating from Hong Kong Baptist University, Boedihardjo studied at Texas A&M University as a visiting scholar and then as a PhD student.[11][12] In 2017, Boediharjo took up the position of assistant adjunct professor at UCLA on a three-year contract,[13] a position he held until 2020.[14] He was a visiting assistant professor at UC Irvine from 2021 to 2022 before starting a postdoc at ETH Zurich, a position he held until 2023. He is currently an assistant professor at Michigan State University.[15]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Record for the youngest person to pass maths A-level with an A grade at the time, but has since been surpassed by Yasha Asley, see "Boy, 8, sets A-level maths record". BBC News. 13 March 2009. and "Boy, 8, gets A in A-level maths". BBC News. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
References
edit- ^ "億 萬 家 財 蒸 發 9 歲 神 童 身 世 傳 奇". 30 August 2007.
- ^ a b Spencer, Richard (25 August 2007). "Maths boy, 9, wins university place". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ "9-year-old maths whiz-kid wins university place". gulfnews.com. 26 August 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ "BBC NEWS, Child star wins university place". BBC News. 24 August 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ "University 'very easy' for Hong Kong nine-year-old boy". Xinhua. 6 September 2007. Archived from the original on 21 February 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ "I know it all already, says junior genius on his historic first day of university". South China Morning Post. 5 September 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ "Archived copy". www1.appledaily.atnext.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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- ^ "HKBU admits nine-year-old applicant March Tian Boedihardjo". HKBU. 23 August 2007. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ "Maths genius counts days before leaving". The Standard. 11 August 2011. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012.
- ^ a b "March Boedihardjo completes his double degrees at HKBU and will continue his research in Mathematics in the United States". HKBU. 12 August 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ^ "Double degree adds up for HK maths prodigy". South China Morning Post. 13 August 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ 黃樂怡 (12 January 2017). "【神童再創神話】9歲讀大學 18歲沈詩鈞在美國UCLA做教授". 香港01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ "Visiting Faculty". UCLA Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- ^ "Personal Homepage of March Boedihardjo". apps.math.msu.edu. Retrieved 15 March 2024.