| March Tian Boedihardjo 沈詩鈞 |
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|---|---|
| Born | March 1998 (age 13–14) Hong Kong |
| Nationality | Hong Kong |
| Other names | 沈詩鈞 |
| Known for | Child prodigy |
March Tian Boedihardjo (simplified Chinese: 沈诗钧; traditional Chinese: 沈詩鈞; pinyin: Shěn ShīJūn, born 1998) is a child prodigy of Chinese Indonesian descent.
Born in Hong Kong, with family roots in Anxi, Fujian, Boedihardjo moved to the United Kingdom in 2005, when his older brother Horatio (born 1991) won a place at the University of Oxford.[1] Horatio Boedihardjo was accepted at Oxford's DPhil program in 2008, making him one of the university's youngest such students.[2]
March Boedihardjo finished his A-level exams in Britain at the age of nine years and three months,[note 1] gaining As in Mathematics and Further Mathematics and a B in Statistics. He also gained 8 GCSEs, which he sat at the same time as his A-levels.[1] He was accepted at Hong Kong Baptist University, making him the youngest ever university student in Hong Kong.[3] The university designed a tailored 5-year curriculum programme for March, but on his first day of class he criticized his classes as too easy and unstimulating.[4] He obtained B+ and A− in most of the mathematics course in his first year examination which entered him into the Dean's List, an honour dedicated to students with semester GPA of 3.00-3.49 and with no grade below C for a given semester. [5] He was conferred a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Science as well as a Master of Philosophy in Mathematics after successfully completing his programme in 2011 (one year early).[6][7][8][9]
March will now study for a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics in the United States.[8]
March attended Greene's Tutorial College, an institution that specialises in one-to-one tuition, making it possible for March to attain his A levels at such a young age. March commented in an interview that his father does not have sufficient money to educate him at Oxford University.[3]