14 Year-Old Boy at Cambridge


A 14-year-old math prodigy is on the verge of breaking a 237-year-old record by becoming the youngest Cambridge University undergraduate since William Pitt the Younger.

Arran Fernandex (14), who was educated at home, was offered an undergraduate place at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam College after passing the university's entrance exam, The Miami Herald reports.

He sat his maths and further maths A-levels, now only needs to pass physics A-level.

When he was aged five in 2001, he gained the highest grade in the foundation maths paper. He went on to sit the intermediate GCSE paper and gained A* in the advanced level paper in 2003.

He has now decided he wants to be a research mathematician and says his ambition is to find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis.

Neil Fernandez, Arran's father, believes his son could soon be the youngest Cambridge undergraduate since William Pitt.

In 1998, a child prodigy called Alexander Faludy came to close to matching Pitt by beginning his Cambridge undergraduate studies at the age of 15.

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