If Lee Hsien Loong didn’t become Singapore’s prime minister, he could have been one of the world’s greatest mathematicians.
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Initially, the plan was to hand over the reins to his Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat. However, Heng stepped down at 60 years old, citing his age as a factor for not taking up the role. In an interview in 2007, Professor Bela Bollobas who had taught Hsien Loong at Cambridge said Hsien Loong was “truly outstanding.”
After graduating from Cambridge, he returned to Singapore to join the military and achieved the rank of Brigadier-General by age 32. Hsien Loong made his foray into politics, not at the behest of his father, but Singapore’s second Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Goh was then the Defence Minister and asked Hsien Loong to join politics.
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