Biography:March Boedihardjo

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March Tian Boedihardjo
沈詩鈞
Born
Hong Kong
OccupationMathematician
Known forChild prodigy

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]

Biography

Boedihardjo 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 designed a tailored 5-year curriculum programme for Boedihardjo which he criticized as being too easy and unstimulating on the first day.[5][6] He obtained B+ and A− in most of the mathematics course in his first year examination which entered him into 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 which he still holds as of 2020.[14] He is a postdoc at UC Irvine as of 2021.

See also

  • List of child prodigies

Notes

  1. ↑ 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. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7941327.stm.  and "Boy, 8, gets A in A-level maths" (in en-GB). BBC News. 2011-03-30. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-12852989. 

References

  1. ↑ "億 萬 家 財 蒸 發 9 歲 神 童 身 世 傳 奇". 30 August 2007. https://hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com/nextplus/magazine/article/20070830/2_10085009/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Spencer, Richard (25 August 2007). "Maths boy, 9, wins university place". Daily Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/25/nalevel225.xml. Retrieved 16 March 2011. 
  3. ↑ "9-year-old maths whiz-kid wins university place" (in en). https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/9-year-old-maths-whiz-kid-wins-university-place-1.196907. 
  4. ↑ "BBC NEWS, Child star wins university place". BBC News. 24 August 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6961865.stm. Retrieved 16 March 2011. 
  5. ↑ "University 'very easy' for Hong Kong nine-year-old boy". Xinhua. 6 September 2007. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/06/content_6669615.htm. Retrieved 16 March 2011. 
  6. ↑ "I know it all already, says junior genius on his historic first day of university". South China Morning Post. 5 September 2007. http://www.scmp.com/article/606720/i-know-it-all-already-says-junior-genius-his-historic-first-day-university. Retrieved 28 September 2012. 
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". http://www1.appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm?iss_id=20080708&sec_id=4104&subsec_id=11866&art_id=11323085. 
  8. ↑ Tvscripts.edt.reuters, Hong Kong Prodigy[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  9. ↑ "HKBU admits nine-year-old applicant March Tian Boedihardjo". HKBU. 23 August 2007. http://net2.hkbu.edu.hk/~enews/view_article.php?id=118. Retrieved 16 March 2011. 
  10. ↑ "Maths genius counts days before leaving". The Standard. 11 August 2011. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121019044222/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=21&art_id=114051&sid=33353499&con_type=1&d_str=20110811&fc=7. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "March Boedihardjo completes his double degrees at HKBU and will continue his research in Mathematics in the United States". HKBU. 12 August 2011. http://www.sci.hkbu.edu.hk/news/news_98.html. Retrieved 29 November 2011. 
  12. ↑ "Double degree adds up for HK maths prodigy". South China Morning Post. 13 August 2011. http://www.scmp.com/article/975993/double-degree-adds-hk-maths-prodigy. Retrieved 28 September 2012. 
  13. ↑ 黃樂怡 (2017-01-12). "【神童再創神話】9歲讀大學 18歲沈詩鈞在美國UCLA做教授" (in zh-HK). https://www.hk01.com/熱爆話題/65293/神童再創神話-9歲讀大學-18歲沈詩鈞在美國ucla做教授. 
  14. ↑ "Visiting Faculty". UCLA Department of Mathematics. https://www.math.ucla.edu/people/visiting/march. Retrieved 16 May 2020. 

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