He’s the ‘Mozart’ of Math and Trump Killed His Funding

Jonathan Cohn
The Bulwark

Excerpt: Terence Tao may be one of the smartest human beings on the planet. That’s not an exaggeration.

Now a UCLA professor, Tao has been a mathematics superstar for pretty much his entire life, going all the way back to the early 1970s when he was a 2-year-old with building blocks showing the other kids how to count. He was 7 when he started calculus, 13 when he became the youngest person ever to win the International Mathematical Olympiad, and 19 when he started his Ph.D. at Princeton.

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