Thursday, Aug 20, 2020, 6:36 pm

By:Tony Williams

#5 Terence Tao

With an IQ of up to 230, Terence Tao is the second smartest man in the world, by most standards, and one of the youngest. Born in 1975, Tao was raised in Australia, he knew basic arithmetic at only 2 years old. Today he teaches at the University of California in Los Angeles.