14-year-old Londoner, Arran Fernandez, is on course to be the youngest Cambridge University student in almost 230 years.
Arran, who was home-schooled, puts most adult university students to shame. After successfully completing the British GCSE maths exam — normally taken by 16-year-olds — at the tender age of five, he went on to complete his A levels — university entrance exams taken by 18-year-olds — at just 14.
According to The Australian: “‘There are a few things I want to work on,’ he said. ‘I’d like the solve the Riemann hypothesis’ – a theory about the patterns of prime numbers that has baffled the greatest mathematicians for 150 years.”
Check out other child prodigies, including the 7-year-old boy who composes his own music, the little girl who at 2-and-a-half can identify over 100 countries, and the Beijing girl who couldn’t speak a word of English at age 7, but by age 11 was a New York Times best-selling author — with her book written in English, of course.
