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.
Fernandez has written a book on Shakespeare's plays.[14]
[edit] References
- ^ "GCSE success stories". BBC. 2001-08-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1505857.stm. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ^ Smithers, Rebecca (2003-08-22). "Bright young things set record". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/aug/22/gcses2003.gcses4. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ^ "Achtjähriges Wunderkind: Klüger ohne Schule". Der Spiegel. http://www.spiegel.de/schulspiegel/0,1518,262971,00.html. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ^ "14-Year-Old Prodigy Offered Place at Cambridge". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/07/world/AP-EU-Britain-Math-Prodigy.html. Retrieved 2010-01-08.[dead link]
- ^ "Boy who broke GCSE record at five is off to Cambridge". London Evening Standard. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23873391-boy-who-broke-gcse-record-at-five-is-off-to-cambridge.do. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
- ^ Jones, Sam (2010-01-07). "Cambridge University offers place to 14-year-old". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/07/cambridge-university-14-arran-fernandez. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
- ^ Garner, Richard (2010-10-06). "Maths prodigy Arran Fernandez is the youngest Cambridge fresher since 1773". London: The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/maths-prodigy-arran-fernandez-is-the-youngest-cambridge-fresher-since-1773-2098824.html. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ "Un ragazzino di 15 anni si è iscritto a Cambridge, è record". Quotidiano.net. 2010-09-03. http://qn.quotidiano.net/esteri/2010/09/03/379427-ragazzino_anni.shtml. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ Smithers, Rebecca (2001-08-24). "Integer sequences? Easy-peasy". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/aug/24/gcses2001.gcses1. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ^ "Occurrences of most frequently occurring number in 1-to-n multiplication table". OEIS. http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A057142. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ^ List of sequences in OEIS authored by Arran Fernandez
- ^ "Frank Elstner: Menschen der Woche". Presseportal. http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/280702/swr_suedwestrundfunk/. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
- ^ "The Terry and Gaby Show". British Film Institute. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/779374. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
- ^ "Maths prodigy Arran Fernandez, 15, becomes youngest Cambridge student since 1773". London: Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308446/Maths-prodigy-Arran-Fernandez-14-youngest-Cambridge-student-1773.html. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
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