Arran Fernandez
Arran Fernandez, England, born June 1995, is a home-educated student who broke the age record for gaining a General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), the English academic qualification usually taken at age 16. Sitting the examinations at the age of five, he was awarded GCSE Mathematics in 2001.[1] In 2003 he became the youngest ever person to gain an A* grade at GCSE, also for Mathematics.[2][3]
In October 2010, aged 15 years and 3 months, he became the youngest undergraduate at Cambridge University since William Pitt the Younger in 1773,[4][5][6][7][8] when he began studying the University's Mathematics Tripos.
Starting in 2000 Fernandez has had several sequences published in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS), the number theory database established by Neil Sloane.[9][10][11]
His television work has included an appearance as a "Person of the Week" on Frank Elstner's chat show on German TV in 2001,[12] and an appearance on Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin's Terry and Gaby Show on British TV in 2003,[13] when he beat mathematics populariser Johnny Ball in a live mental arithmetic contest, successfully extracting the fifth roots of several large integers.
[edit] References
- ^ "GCSE success stories". BBC. 2001-08-23. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ^ Smithers, Rebecca (2003-08-22). "Bright young things set record". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ^ "Achtjähriges Wunderkind: Klüger ohne Schule". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ^ "14-Year-Old Prodigy Offered Place at Cambridge". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-01-08.[dead link]
- ^ "Boy who broke GCSE record at five is off to Cambridge". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
- ^ Jones, Sam (2010-01-07). "Cambridge University offers place to 14-year-old". London: The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
- ^ Garner, Richard (2010-10-06). "Maths prodigy Arran Fernandez is the youngest Cambridge fresher since 1773". London: The Independent. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ "Un ragazzino di 15 anni si è iscritto a Cambridge, è record". Quotidiano.net. 2010-09-03. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ Smithers, Rebecca (2001-08-24). "Integer sequences? Easy-peasy". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ^ "Occurrences of most frequently occurring number in 1-to-n multiplication table". OEIS. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ^ List of sequences in OEIS authored by Arran Fernandez
- ^ "Frank Elstner: Menschen der Woche". Presseportal. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
- ^ "The Terry and Gaby Show". British Film Institute. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
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