One intelligent person I really look up to is Terence Tao, known as an Australian and American mathematician, a professor in the Department of Mathematics, UCLA. He was born in 1975 in China. I have heard incredible news about him on Instagram and YouTube for more than two years and have been following him since then on. I personally consider him to fit the description of an intellectual individual. He possesses a profound understanding about harmonic analysis, partial different equations, algebraic combinatorics, which is the toughest topic in math, and even applications of artificial intelligence in mathematics. What I find most remarkable is the age he started teaching himself to read. By 8 he was working through high school math. At 9 he scored an incredible 760 out of 800. On the math section of the SAT his estimated IQ is around 230. of the highest ever recorded. On top of that, he has had 300 papers published. I consider him intelligent not only because of his task-solving ability, but also because of his strategic thinking. Instead of focusing on just one specialty, Powell has worked across dozens of mathematical fields. Now we’re in someone who quietly solves problems that have stumped experts for details. The thing I admire is his humility. He doesn’t try to be a genius. He just is, which really fascinates me and inspires me to be the same as he is.
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One intelligent person I really look up to is Terence Tao, known as an Australian and American mathematician, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. He was born in 1975 in China. I have heard incredible news about him on Instagram and YouTube for more than two years and have been following him since then. I personally consider him to fit the description of an intellectual individual. He possesses a profound understanding of harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and algebraic combinatorics, which is the toughest topic in math, and even applications of artificial intelligence in mathematics. What I find most remarkable is the age he started teaching himself to read. By age 8, he was working through high school math. At 9, he scored an incredible 760 out of 800 on the math section of the SAT. His estimated IQ is around 230, one of the highest ever recorded. On top of that, he has had 300 papers published. I consider him intelligent not only because of his problem-solving ability but also because of his strategic thinking. Instead of focusing on just one specialty, Tao has worked across dozens of mathematical fields. Now we have someone who quietly solves problems that have stumped experts for decades. The thing I admire is his humility. He doesn't try to be a genius; he just is, which really fascinates me and inspires me to be the same as he is.
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