PhD in Math and other STEM. Sweat thread

That’s really great to hear for a 16-year-old wanting to pursue a PhD in math. Applied math is something I really want to do in the future but I might have to take a gap year or semester to study very well for the GRE Math subject exam. What is he looking to do? Has he taken Geometry, topology, abstract algebra? Was Rudin’s book hard for him? how many problems did he do per chapter?