March Boedihardjo
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| Born | March 1998 (age 26) |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Hong Kong |
| Known for | Child prodigy |
March Tian Boedihardjo (simplified Chinese: 沈诗钧; traditional Chinese: 沈詩鈞; pinyin: Shěn ShīJūn, born March 1998) is a child prodigy of Chinese Indonesian descent.
Born in Hong Kong, with family roots in Anxi, Fujian, Boedihardjo moved to the United Kingdom in 2005, when his older brother Horatio (born 1991) won a place at the University of Oxford.[1] Horatio Boedihardjo was accepted at Oxford's DPhil program in 2008, making him one of the university's youngest such students.[2]
March Boedihardjo finished his A-level exams in Britain at the age of nine years and three months,[note 1] gaining As in Mathematics and Further Mathematics and a B in Statistics. He also gained 8 GCSEs, which he sat at the same time as his A-levels.[1] 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 March, but on his first day of class he criticized his classes as too easy and unstimulating.[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, an honour dedicated to students with semester GPA of 3.00-3.49 and with no grade below C for a given semester.[6] He was conferred a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Science as well as a Master of Philosophy in Mathematics after successfully completing his programme in 2011 (one year early).[7][8][9][10]
After graduating from Hong Kong Baptist University, March departed for Texas A&M University in the United States to conduct collaborative research with two Mathematics professors in the capacity of Visiting Scholar.[10][11]
March attended Greene's Tutorial College, an institution that specialises in one-to-one tuition, making it possible for March to attain his A levels at such a young age. March commented in an interview that his father does not have sufficient money to educate him at Oxford University.[3]
See also
Notes
- ^ Record for the youngest person to pass maths A-level with an A grade at the time, but has since been beaten by Zohaib Ahmed, see "Boy, 8, sets A-level maths record". BBC News. 13 March 2009.
References
- ^ a b Spencer, Richard (2007-08-25). "Maths boy, 9, wins university place". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
- ^ "17-year-old Hong Kong student wins Oxford PHD place", AFP, July 9, 2008
- ^ a b "BBC NEWS, Child star wins university place". BBC News. 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
- ^ "University 'very easy' for Hong Kong nine-year-old boy". Xinhua. 2007-09-06. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
- ^ "I know it all already, says junior genius on his historic first day of university". South China Morning Post. 2007-09-05. Retrieved 2012-09-28.
- ^ http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm?iss_id=20080708&sec_id=4104&subsec_id=11866&art_id=11323085
- ^ Tvscripts.edt.reuters, Hong Kong Prodigy[dead link]
- ^ "HKBU admits nine-year-old applicant March Tian Boedihardjo". HKBU. 2007-08-23. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
- ^ "Maths genius counts days before leaving". The Standard. 2011-08-11.
- ^ a b "March Boedihardjo completes his double degrees at HKBU and will continue his research in Mathematics in the United States". HKBU. 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ "Double degree adds up for HK maths prodigy". South China Morning Post. 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2012-09-28.