Arran Fernandez,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, born June 1995, is a home-educated student who holds the age record for gaining a
General Certificate of Secondary EducationThe General Certificate of Secondary Education is an academic qualification awarded in a specified subject, generally taken in a number of subjects by students aged 15–16 in secondary education in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland...
(GCSE), the English academic qualification usually taken at age 16. Sitting for the examinations at the age of five, he was awarded GCSE Mathematics in 2001. In 2003 he became the youngest ever person to gain an A* grade at GCSE, also for Mathematics.
Arran Fernandez,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, born June 1995, is a home-educated student who holds the age record for gaining a
General Certificate of Secondary EducationThe General Certificate of Secondary Education is an academic qualification awarded in a specified subject, generally taken in a number of subjects by students aged 15–16 in secondary education in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland...
(GCSE), the English academic qualification usually taken at age 16. Sitting for the examinations at the age of five, he was awarded GCSE Mathematics in 2001. In 2003 he became the youngest ever person to gain an A* grade at GCSE, also for Mathematics.
Starting in 2000 he has had several sequences published in the
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer SequencesThe On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences , also cited simply as Sloane's, is a freely-available online database of integer sequences, created and maintained by N. J. A. Sloane, a researcher at AT&T Labs, and hosted on his website....
(OEIS), the
number theoryNumber theory is the branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of numbers in general, and integers in particular, as well as the wider classes of problems that arise from their study....
database established by
Neil SloaneNeil James Alexander Sloane is a British-U.S. mathematician. He studied at Cornell University under Nick DeClaris, Frank Rosenblatt, Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967. His doctoral dissertation was titled Lengths of cycle times in random neural...
.
His television work has included an appearance as a "Person of the Week" on
Frank ElstnerFrank Elstner, full name Tim Maria Franz Elstner is a German television presenter.Elstner went to school in Rastatt in Germany and gained his first experience in broadcasting as a child when he acted in radio plays for the station then known as Südwestfunk, now as Südwestrundfunk, which served the...
's
chat showA talk show or chat show is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host...
on German TV in 2001, and an appearance on
Terry WoganSir Michael Terence "Terry" Wogan KBE DL is a veteran Irish radio and television broadcaster and comedian, who has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom for most of his career. With a regular 8 million listeners, he is the most listened to radio broadcaster of any...
and
Gaby RoslinGaby Roslin is an English television presenter and actress.-Early life:Roslin is the daughter of the former BBC radio announcer Clive Roslin, who was born and raised in London. Her family is Jewish, originating from Zimbabwe...
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Terry and Gaby ShowThe Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and March 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin....
on British TV in 2003, when he beat mathematics populariser
Johnny BallJohnny Ball is a British television personality, a great populariser of mathematics and the father of BBC Radio 2 DJ Zoë Ball.-Early life:...
in a live
mental arithmeticMental calculation comprises arithmetical calculations using only the human brain, with no help from a calculator or computer, or pen and paper....
contest, successfully extracting the
fifth rootsIn mathematics, a root of a number x is any number which, when repeatedly multiplied by itself, eventually yields x:In terms of exponentiation, r is a root of x iffor some positive integer n...
of several large integers.