Education:

1. Graduated high school at 15, demonstrating exceptional aptitude in mathematics.
2. Attended Harvard University on a scholarship at age 16 (1958).
3. Graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1962.
4. Earned a master's degree (1964) and Ph.D. (1967) in mathematics from the University of Michigan.
5. His Ph.D. dissertation on boundary functions won the Sumner B. Myers Prize for best mathematics dissertation at the university that year.