The surprising thing is that a person as busy as him took time to code for fun. His ability to code itself is less of a surprise, given that he majored and exc

The surprising thing is that a person as busy as him took time to code for fun. His ability to code itself is less of a surprise, given that he majored and excelled in math & computer science, and would have become a world-class mathematician if he hadn't entered politics. One of his teachers at Cambridge said: "No, he was truly outstanding: he was head and shoulders above the rest of the students. He was not only the first, but the gap. I think that he did computer science (after mathematics) mostly because his father didn’t want him to stay in pure mathematics. Loong was not only hardworking, conscientious and professional, but he was also very inventive. All the signs indicated that he would have been a world-class research mathematician." -- Béla Bollobás So he's quite the outlier among politicians. And the Prime Minister himself wrote that he would never be a mathematician: "A mathematician really has little say in what goes on in the world around him, in the way things are going on in the country. ...It does not mean I have to go into politics, but an important member of the civil service or the armed forces is in a position to do a great deal of good or harm." Previous thread about him and this sudoku solver: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419035