Monday, May 4, 2015

Limited only by infinity?

Terry Tao is an Australian-born Chinese American mathematician working in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and random matrix theory. He scored above 760 on his SATs when he was eight years old. He taught high school calculus at Garfield High School when he was seven. He earned his bachelor and master's degrees when he was 16. He was 21 when he earned his PhD at Princeton.

Child prodigy Terry Tao in a university class.

Use the link at the end of this post to watch Terry being interviewed by humorist Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. It will make you laugh, and think. Are we all limited only by infinity? http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/6wtwlg/terence-tao

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