March 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, after attending Greene's College Oxford[3].[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.[4] The university tailored a special 5-year curriculum programme for Boedihardjo which he criticized as being too easy and unstimulating on the first day.[5][6] 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.[7] 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.[8][9][10][11]

After graduating from Hong Kong Baptist University, Boedihardjo studied at Texas A&M University as a visiting scholar and then as a PhD student.[11][12] In 2017, Boediharjo took up the position of assistant adjunct professor at UCLA on a three-year contract,[13] a position he held until 2020.[14] He was a visiting assistant professor at UC Irvine from 2021 to 2022 before starting a postdoc at ETH Zurich, a position he holds as of 2023.[15]

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. Archived from the original on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  3. "9-year-old maths whiz-kid wins university place". gulfnews.com. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  4. "BBC NEWS, Child star wins university place". BBC News. 24 August 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  5. "University 'very easy' for Hong Kong nine-year-old boy". Xinhua. 6 September 2007. Archived from the original on 21 February 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  6. "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.
  7. "Archived copy". www1.appledaily.atnext.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. Tvscripts.edt.reuters, Hong Kong Prodigy
  9. "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.
  10. "Maths genius counts days before leaving". The Standard. 11 August 2011. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012.
  11. "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.
  12. "Double degree adds up for HK maths prodigy". South China Morning Post. 13 August 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  13. 黃樂怡 (12 January 2017). "【神童再創神話】9歲讀大學 18歲沈詩鈞在美國UCLA做教授". 香港01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  14. "Visiting Faculty". UCLA Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  15. "Personal Homepage of March Boedihardjo". people.math.ethz.ch. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
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