In this world only about 0.5 percent of the total human being on this earth with an IQ above 140 is considered as the category of genius, of 0.5 percent, one of them is Terence Tao, a man with the highest IQ in the world today and also one of the most genius people who exist on earth today with IQ at between 230 to 240 under William James Sidis one of humankind's greatest genius the world has ever seen. Terence Tao was born with the full name of Terence "Terry" Chi-Shen Tao on July 17, 1975 in Adelaide, Australia.
Tao's father was born and raised in Shanghai, and Tao's mother came from Canton. His parents were immigrants from Hong Kong to Australia. Her father, Billy Tao is a pediatrician, and his mother, Grace Tao, physicists and mathematicians is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong, a former high school math teacher in Hong Kong. Terence Tao can be regarded as a child prodigy as claimed by educational researchers Miraca Gross while researching about gifted children.
Terence Tao's father told the press that when Terence Tao was two years old when the family gathering, Tao attempted to teach arithmetic and English lessons to children aged five years. Terence Tao's father told the press that when Terence Tao was two years old when the family gathering, Tao attempted to teach arithmetic and English lessons to children aged five years. According to Smithsonian Magazine online, Tao can perform basic arithmetic at the age of two years.
When asked by his father how he knew the numbers and letters, she says she learned the show Sesame Street. In addition to English-speaking smart, clever Tao also speak Cantonese, but can not write in Chinese.
Terence Tao exhibit exceptional math skills from an early age, he studied mathematics at the university level age of nine. He is one of only two children (besides Lenhard Ng) in the history of the study of Johns Hopkins' remarkable talent program which can achieve a score of 700 or higher on the math at the age of just eight years (he scored 760). In 1986, 1987 and 1988, Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, and the first to compete in the age of ten, he won the bronze, silver and gold medals. She remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals she won in the history of science olympiad. He won Olympic gold medals mathematics when he was about fourteen years old. At age 14, Tao attended the meeting of the Science Research Institute.
When she was 15 she published her First Paper. He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree at the age of 16 from Flinders University. In 1992 he won a Fulbright scholarship to do postgraduate studies in the United States. From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein, and Tao received his Ph.D. at the age of 20 years. He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. When he was 24, he was promoted to professor at UCLA and remains the youngest person ever appointed as professor by the institution.
Tao has won many awards. He received the Salem Prize in 2000, Bôcher Memorial Prize in 2002, and Clay Research Award in 2003, for his contributions to the analysis including work on Kakeya conjecture and wave maps. In 2005, he received the American Society Mathematics Levi L. Conant Prize with Allen Knutson, and in 2006 he was awarded the Literature Prize Ramanujan. In 2004, Ben Green and Tao released what is now known as the Green-Tao theorem.
Tao is a finalist for the Australian of the Year award in 2007. He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Australia, and in 2007 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Australia. In April 2008, Tao received the Alan T. Waterman Award, which recognizes an early career scientist for outstanding contribution in their field. In addition to medals, waterman scholarship recipients also receive a grant of $ 500,000 for continued research. In December 2008, Tao was also elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2009.
In 2010, he received the King Faisal International Prize together with Enrico Bombieri Also in 2010. In 2012 he and Jean Bourgain received the Award Crafoord in Mathematics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Also, in 2012, he received an award from the Simon Foundation. In 2013, Tao has published more than 250 research papers and 17 books.
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