Math Student in Singapore Wows with Video Lectures
December 28th, 2009 | 
Author: Singapore is a land of great innovations. This unique island city state is one of the most fascinating places to visit, and bears repeated visits. The lively urban culture is very sophisticated and always changing, so that there are always new things to see, experience, and enjoy here. It’s one of the remarkable facts of travel that one can never enter the same metaphorical river twice, so that any city once seen will never be the same again. This is even more true here, where the speed of change and innovation is very fast. This is due in large part to the eclectic cultural milieu here that simply can’t exist anywhere else. It’s history as a major world port, as well as its geographical location, means that it is made up of many cultures.
Chinese, Indian, and Malay cultures play a large part in the life of the city, not only in its population, but in the influences in food and culture. This makes it particularly easy to find a good restaurant in Singapore, and there are many that pass good and move right into excellent. The traditional chefs have access to an amazing variety of ingredients, so that dishes can be prepared with extreme precision, according to very old recipes, and there is also plenty of room for a wide variety of innovations. The spirit of innovation is everywhere here, as exemplified by one of the National University of Singapore undergrads, Donovan Lee.
He graduated with superb grades, and his SAT scores were also very high, but he didn’t get into the ivy league schools he was hoping for. In one of those rare occasions where desperation meets an equal amount of determination, he decided to start making 10-minute videos of himself solving complicated math problems on a white board in a room at his parent’s house. The remarkable ability of Lee was noted by some top math scholars from around the world, and his video went viral. He is reapplying again, after having achieved no small degree of fame and success from his decision to match technology with talent to prove his abilities to the world.
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