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Be Terence Tao
IQ of 230

He achieved a score of above 700 on the SAT math section with just 9 years old.

He attended university-level mathematics courses at the age of 9.

Youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten, winning a bronze, silver, and gold medal.

He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday.

At age 14, Tao attended the Research Science Institute. When he was 15 he published his first assistant paper. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the age of 16 from Flinders University under Garth Gaudry.

At age of 17 he won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake postgraduate study in the United States.

From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein, receiving his PhD at the age of 21.

He joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. 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.

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Childhood