Terence Tao has a mind that could make bankers a lot of money.
The Adelaide-born professor was studying university-level maths at the age of nine. He completed his PhD in mathematics at Princeton at 20 and at 31 he was awarded the Fields Medal, regarded as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics”.
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correction —
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Professor Tao received his PhD from the University of California.