Most of us might baulk at the thought of strolling to the front of a university classroom to correct a lecturer in the middle of a lesson.
But in Terence Tao's defence, such boldness deserves to be forgiven as a mere folly of youth — because he can't have been much older than nine at the time.
It was at that age that the precocious Professor Tao began splitting his education between Blackwood High School (he'd skipped several grades) and nearby Flinders University in Adelaide's south.
