Hong Kong mathematician
In this Chinese Indonesian name, the family name is (沈) Boedihardjo.
March Tian Boedihardjo | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hong Kong |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Known&#;for | Child prodigy |
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] As of , he is an assistant professor of mathematics at Michigan State University.[2]
Boedihardjo was born to an ethnic Chinese family in Hong Kong, with family roots in Anxi, China.[citation needed] Boedihardjo moved to the United Kingdom in , when his older brother Horatio began studying at the University of Oxford.[3]
Boedihardjo finished his A-level exams in Britain at the age of nine years and three months, after attending Greene's College Oxford.[4][note 1] He also gained 8 GCSEs.[3] 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 [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.[12][13] In , Boediharjo took up the position of assistant adjunct professor at UCLA on a three-year contract,[14] a position he held until [15] He was a visiting assistant professor at UC Irvine from to before starting a postdoc at ETH Zurich, a position he held until He is currently an assistant professor of mathematics at Michigan State University.