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| − | Charles Fefferman, a [[Princeton University]] mathematics professor who is considered one of the finest American mathematicians ever.<ref>Fefferman was the youngest professor ever granted tenure, and won the coveted Fields Prize before age 30.</ref> He supposedly mastered [[calculus]] before the age of 12, despite its inaccessibility to schoolchildren that age.<ref>http:// | + | Charles Fefferman, a [[Princeton University]] mathematics professor who is considered one of the finest American mathematicians ever.<ref>Fefferman was the youngest professor ever granted tenure, and won the coveted Fields Prize before age 30.</ref> He supposedly mastered [[calculus]] before the age of 12, despite its inaccessibility to schoolchildren that age.<ref>http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Fefferman.html</ref> |
He enrolled in college after spending only one year at Takoma Park Junior High, where he may have had trouble fitting in, a familiar criticism of [[homeschoolers]].<ref>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/18110</ref><ref>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/18103</ref> | He enrolled in college after spending only one year at Takoma Park Junior High, where he may have had trouble fitting in, a familiar criticism of [[homeschoolers]].<ref>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/18110</ref><ref>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/18103</ref> | ||
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Charles Fefferman, a Princeton University mathematics professor who is considered one of the finest American mathematicians ever.[1] He supposedly mastered calculus before the age of 12, despite its inaccessibility to schoolchildren that age.[2]
He enrolled in college after spending only one year at Takoma Park Junior High, where he may have had trouble fitting in, a familiar criticism of homeschoolers.[3][4]
Was Fefferman homeschooled?
References
- ↑ Fefferman was the youngest professor ever granted tenure, and won the coveted Fields Prize before age 30.
- ↑ http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Fefferman.html
- ↑ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/18110
- ↑ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/18103