Note there is a mistake in the video. The woman at the start says he is in year 12. He isn't. He is in year 11. The mistake is repeated in the caption.
That's a pretty narrow view of the point of all this. I can guarantee you no one who competes here does maths so they can get some dumb job to make money. Some of them were pressured, but most of them do it because they have their sights set higher than money, to something just beautiful and profound and almost otherworldly. Don't reduce sheer genius to some dumb status. They shouldn't give a shit who makes fun of them either, or need some kind of "comeback", like money, to address it. Perelman lives with his mom and turned down a million bucks from the Millennium Prize. Anyone who makes fun of them doesn't truly understand what they're doing.
Khoa Le Please, the PRC has 1.3 bn people... Assuming constant probability of success across some population and blah blah, the PRC evidently has a much better chance of selecting individuals with potentially better abilities...
+General of your mom you do realise china's population is 1.3 billion? Australia's is around 23 million. That means china's population is roughly 56.5 times bigger than australias, ofcourse they're going to have more perfect-score candidates u fkn idiot.
+Jack "China's" not "china's", and "Australia's" not "australias", and "of course" not "ofcourse". Your maths is basically correct though. This kid is nowhere near as clever as John von Neumann ( 1903 - 1957 ) or Julian Schwinger ( 1918 - 1994 ) anyway.
