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> be Terence Tao
> born in Australia
> starts doing math at age 2
> taking university-level classes by age 9
> training with top math students by 10
> wins IMO bronze at 13
> silver at 14
> gold with a perfect score at 15
> youngest person in history to achieve that
> completes bachelor’s and master’s early
> begins PhD at Princeton at 16
> becomes a UCLA professor in early 20s
> receives the Fields Medal in 2006
> makes major contributions in number theory, harmonic analysis, PDEs, and combinatorics
> co-proves the Green–Tao theorem: primes contain infinitely long arithmetic progressions
> continues teaching, researching, and writing
> considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the modern era
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