Who is Currently the Smartest Person in the World?

Published on July 3, 2015 at 4:30 am by George Durankiev in Lists

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1. Terence Tao

IQ Level: 225-230

The last person who would be a suitable answer to the question “who is currently the smartest person in the world?” is Terence Tao. Tao was born in 1975 and by the time he was two, he was already teaching a five-year-old how to deal with arithmetics. At eight years old he was already teaching calculus at a high school. A year later, Tao already attended mathematics courses at university levels.

He went on to compete in an international mathematics olympiad in 1986, 1987 and 1988 where he won all three medals in these consecutive years, effectively becoming the youngest holder of all three in the history of the competition.

Terence Tao enrolled in university at the age of fourteen, publishing his first assistant paper the following year. At the age of sixteen he received both a bachelor’s and master’s degree and earned his PhD at 21.

Tao is the youngest appointed professor at UCLA.