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Math is one of the most boring classes for many students. But recently a math class at the University of California in the US got four hundred students interested. There 46even another thirty-five students watching from behind windows.
Who could make a boring subject so47 ? Terence Tao, a48professor. He is known as “the Mozart of Math”.
Tao was born in Hong Kong. He49his childhood in Australia. At the50 of two, he could read. At nine, he went to college math classes. Tao was talented. He went to college when he was fourteen. At twenty, he got his doctoral degree.
Last summer, Tao won a Fields Medal. This is known51the “Nobel Prize of math”. “There is no point going to college too young,” said Tao. He said studying is like52a pyramid (金字塔). A pyramid must have a strong base, 53then can be built higher.
In54ways, he’s like us. Tao wears a sweatshirt and a pair of sports shoes most of the time and he reads Japanese comic books. But he said his55love is still math.
“In many ways, my work is my hobby,” he said.
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