Terence Tao is today the smartest person in the world, and of history. It is an Australian whose intellectual quotient (Iq) exceeds that of legendary intellectuals such as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, who at the time revolutionized science.
From what is known, its IQ ranges between 225 and 230. Meanwhile, the coefficient of the intellectuals mentioned above was estimated around 160.
Tao was born in 1975, in the city of Adelaide, in Australia. Today is at the cusp of mathematics research.
From an early age he showed his talent and his ability to learn. From an early age he attended the university classrooms, at Flinders University, although he did not officially carry a career.
At 16 he moves to the United States, to begin his doctorate at Princeton University. However, this was a real emotional shock. According to Infobae report, Tao was intimidated by the advances of other students and the complexity of the studies.
Due to this situation, he understood more about patience and perseverance. His work in the harmonic analysis and numbers theory was the highlight that he made as a young man and in 2006, at 31 years of age, he received the Fields Medal (equivalent to Nobel Prize).
He also collaborated in the formulation of Green-Tao theorem, developed with Ben Green, from the University of Oxford. They demonstrated that there are arithmetic progressions of any length within the prime numbers.
He has received innumerable awards worldwide and is called the “Mozart of Mathematics.” Unlike other intellectuals, Terence Tao moves away from the stereotype of self -absorbed mathematician and tries to have a quiet and familiar life.