Page quickly enlisted the help of math prodigy Sergey Brin to further test his theory.

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He proved himself something of a math prodigy, earning a scholarship to study the economics of raw material extraction at the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute.

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He had been regarded as a math prodigy from early childhood, and he could solve high-school math problems by the time he was in third grade.

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Tao, 34, has lived up to his early billing as the 8-year-old prodigy who scored a 760 on his math sat and at 12 won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

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