He is one of only two children in the history of the Johns Hopkins' Study of Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just 8 years old (he scored a 760). Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university level mathematics courses at the age of nine. He currently lives with his wife and son in Los Angeles, California. Aside from English, Tao speaks Cantonese, but does not write Chinese. When asked by his father how he knew numbers and letters, he said he learned them from Sesame Street. According to Smithsonian Online Magazine, Tao taught himself arithmetic by the age of two.
His father told the press that at the age of two, during a family gathering, Tao taught a 5-year-old child mathematics and English. She was reportedly also an exceptional mathematician. His father, Billy Tao (Chinese name Xiangguo Chinese: 陶象國 Cantonese Yale: tòuh jeuhng gwok Pinyin: Táo Xiàngguó) is a pediatrician, and his mother is a Physics and Mathematics graduate from The University of Hong Kong, formerly a secondary school teacher of Mathematics in Hong Kong. His parents are first generation immigrants from Hong Kong to Australia. Both of his parents are Cantonese Chinese by ethnicity.
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When he was 24, he was promoted to full professor at UCLA and remains the youngest person ever appointed to that rank by the institution.
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