March Tian Boedihardjo

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]

In this Chinese Indonesian name, the family name is (沈) Boedihardjo.
March Tian Boedihardjo
沈詩鈞
Born
Hong Kong
OccupationMathematician
Known forChild prodigy

Biography

Boedihardjo was born to an ethnic Chinese family in Hong Kong, with family roots in Anxi, China. 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.[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.[3] The university designed a tailored 5-year curriculum programme for Boedihardjo which he criticized as being too easy and unstimulating on the first day.[4][5] He obtained B+ and A− in most of the mathematics course in his first year examination which entered him into the Dean's List.[6] 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.[7][8][9][10]

After graduating from Hong Kong Baptist University, Boedihardjo studied at Texas A&M University as a Visiting Scholar and then as a PhD student.[10][11] As of 2020, Boedihardjo is an assistant adjunct professor at UCLA.[12]

gollark: How is not arbitrarily zeroing things "unusual"?
gollark: But the test code was in Python, because I only write C ironically, and dealing with anomalous C things would have been annoying.
gollark: It's a shame too, as it *was* quite a nice test suite.
gollark: Prove it.
gollark: It was very good. I tested it against itself, and it said it was fine.

See also

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. and "Boy, 8, gets A in A-level maths". BBC News. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

References
  1. "億 萬 家 財 蒸 發 　 9 歲 神 童 身 世 傳 奇". 30 August 2007.
  2. Spencer, Richard (25 August 2007). "Maths boy, 9, wins university place". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  3. "BBC NEWS, Child star wins university place". BBC News. 24 August 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  4. "University 'very easy' for Hong Kong nine-year-old boy". Xinhua. 6 September 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  5. "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.
  6. http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm?iss_id=20080708&sec_id=4104&subsec_id=11866&art_id=11323085%5B%5D
  7. Tvscripts.edt.reuters, Hong Kong Prodigy
  8. "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.
  9. "Maths genius counts days before leaving". The Standard. 11 August 2011. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012.
  10. "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.
  11. "Double degree adds up for HK maths prodigy". South China Morning Post. 13 August 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  12. "Visiting Faculty". UCLA Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
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