Lenhard Ng
| Lenhard L Ng | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1976 |
| Residence | Berkeley, California |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Duke University Mathematical Sciences Research Institute |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Tomasz Mrowka |
| Known for |
Differential Geometry Gauge Theory Legendrian Submanifolds |
Lenhard Ng (born 1976, United States) is an American mathematician, working primarily on symplectic geometry. Ng is a professor of mathematics at Duke University.
Lenhard Ng is an American of Chinese descent. His father, Jack Ng, is a professor of Physics at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Lenhard earned his B.A. summa cum laude in Mathematics and Physics from Harvard University in three years and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001.
He is married to Astrid Giugni.
Ng was a child prodigy who was once thought to be the "smartest kid in America". At age 10, he earned a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of what is now called the SAT-I. He is one of the youngest children to have achieved this feat. At the age of 11, he earned a perfect score on the College Board Test of Standard Written English. He earned a perfect score on the American High School Mathematics Examination in all 4 years of high school at Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, North Carolina). He attended the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and was one of the gifted children included in the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth longitudinal cohort. He was estimated to be top one in approximately one million of his age-mates.
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