March Boedihardjo Explained

March Tian Boedihardjo
Birth Place:Hong Kong
Known For:Child prodigy
Occupation:Mathematician

March Tian Boedihardjo 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. Boedihardjo moved to the United Kingdom in 2005, when his older brother Horatio began studying at the University of Oxford.

Boedihardjo finished his A-level exams in Britain at the age of nine years and three months, after attending Greene's College Oxford.[2] [3] He also gained 8 GCSEs.[4] He was accepted at Hong Kong Baptist University, making him the youngest ever university student in Hong Kong.[5] The university tailored a special 5-year curriculum programme for Boedihardjo which he criticized as being too easy and unstimulating on the first day.[6] [7] He obtained A−'s and B+'s in most of his mathematics courses in his first year, which got him on the Dean's List.[8] 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.[9] [10] [11] [12]

After graduating from Hong Kong Baptist University, Boedihardjo studied at Texas A&M University as a visiting scholar and then as a PhD student.[13] In 2017, Boediharjo took up the position of assistant adjunct professor at UCLA on a three-year contract,[14] a position he held until 2020.[15] He was a visiting assistant professor at UC Irvine from 2021 to 2022 before starting a postdoc at ETH Zurich, a position he held until 2023. He is currently an assistant professor at Michigan State University.[16]

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  1. News: 億 萬 家 財 蒸 發 9 歲 神 童 身 世 傳 奇. 30 August 2007.
  2. Web site: 9-year-old maths whiz-kid wins university place . 2022-08-18 . gulfnews.com . en.
  3. 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 News: Boy, 8, sets A-level maths record . BBC News . 13 March 2009. and News: 2011-03-30. Boy, 8, gets A in A-level maths. en-GB. BBC News. 2020-05-16.
  4. News: Spencer . Richard . Maths boy, 9, wins university place . https://web.archive.org/web/20070907073354/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/25/nalevel225.xml . dead . 7 September 2007 . Daily Telegraph . 25 August 2007 . 16 March 2011.
  5. News: BBC NEWS, Child star wins university place . BBC News . 24 August 2007 . 16 March 2011.
  6. Web site: University 'very easy' for Hong Kong nine-year-old boy . https://web.archive.org/web/20080221233322/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/06/content_6669615.htm . dead . 21 February 2008 . Xinhua . 6 September 2007 . 16 March 2011.
  7. Web site: I know it all already, says junior genius on his historic first day of university . South China Morning Post . 5 September 2007 . 28 September 2012.
  8. Web site: Archived copy . www1.appledaily.atnext.com . 13 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080710062057/http://www1.appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm?iss_id=20080708&sec_id=4104&subsec_id=11866&art_id=11323085 . 10 July 2008 . dead.
  9. http://tvscripts.edt.reuters.com/2007-08-23/ea311d8.html Tvscripts.edt.reuters, Hong Kong Prodigy
  10. Web site: HKBU admits nine-year-old applicant March Tian Boedihardjo . HKBU . 23 August 2007 . 16 March 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721085951/http://net2.hkbu.edu.hk/~enews/view_article.php?id=118 . 21 July 2011 . dead . dmy-all .
  11. Web site: Maths genius counts days before leaving . The Standard . 11 August 2011 . dead . 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 . 19 October 2012 .
  12. Web site: March Boedihardjo completes his double degrees at HKBU and will continue his research in Mathematics in the United States . HKBU . 12 August 2011 . 29 November 2011.
  13. Web site: Double degree adds up for HK maths prodigy . South China Morning Post . 13 August 2011 . 28 September 2012.
  14. Web site: 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. 2020-10-11. 香港01. zh-HK.
  15. Web site: Visiting Faculty. UCLA Department of Mathematics. 16 May 2020.
  16. Web site: Personal Homepage of March Boedihardjo . 2024-03-15 . apps.math.msu.edu.

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