Arran Fernandez

Arran Fernandez (born June 1995) is a British mathematician who in June 2013 became Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University, aged 18 years. He is thought to be the youngest Senior Wrangler ever.[1][4]

Arran Fernandez
BornJune 1995 (age 25)
United Kingdom
EducationHome-educated
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
ThesisAnalysis in Fractional Calculus and Asymptotics Related to Zeta Functions (2018)
Doctoral advisorAthanassios S. Fokas

In October 2010, when Fernandez began studying the Cambridge Mathematics Tripos aged 15 years and 3 months, he was the youngest Cambridge University undergraduate since William Pitt the Younger in 1773.[5][6][7][8][9]

Prior to university, Fernandez was educated at home, and in 2001 he broke the age record for gaining a General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), the English academic qualification usually taken at age 16, for which he sat the examinations aged five.[10] In 2003 he became the youngest ever person to gain an A* grade at GCSE, also for Mathematics.[11][12] Fernandez believes that it was an exceptional environment (nurture), not an exceptional nature, that enabled him to achieve these results.[13]

Starting in 2000 (at 5 years old) Fernandez had several sequences published in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS), the number theory database established by Neil Sloane.[14][15][16] Starting in 2017, he has had several mathematical research articles published in peer-reviewed international journals.[17][18][19]

Television work featuring Fernandez has included an appearance as a "Person of the Week" on Frank Elstner's chat show on German TV in 2001,[20] and an appearance on Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin's Terry and Gaby Show on British TV in 2003,[21] when he beat mathematics populariser Johnny Ball in a live mental arithmetic contest, successfully extracting the fifth roots of several large integers.

In September 2018, having completed his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Cambridge, Fernandez joined the faculty of the Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus as an assistant professor of mathematics.[22][23] His main research areas are in fractional calculus and analytic number theory.

References
  1. "Student, 18, youngest ever to come top in Cambridge maths finals". Daily Telegraph. 21 June 2013.
  2. Wilkinson, James H. Hammarling, Sven (2003). Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Springer London. ISBN 0-470-86412-5.
  3. Crilly, Tony (2006). Arthur Cayley: mathematician laureate of the Victorian age. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 160. ISBN 0-8018-8011-4.
  4. The previous youngest was probably James Wilkinson in 1939, aged 19 years, 9 months,;[2] up to 1909, the youngest was Peter Guthrie Tait in 1862, aged 20 years, 8 months.[3]
  5. "14-Year-Old Prodigy Offered Place at Cambridge". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  6. "Boy who broke GCSE record at five is off to Cambridge". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  7. Jones, Sam (7 January 2010). "Cambridge University offers place to 14-year-old". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
  8. Garner, Richard (6 October 2010). "Maths prodigy Arran Fernandez is the youngest Cambridge fresher since 1773". The Independent. London. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  9. "Un ragazzino di 15 anni si è iscritto a Cambridge, è record". Quotidiano.net. 3 September 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  10. "GCSE success stories". BBC. 23 August 2001. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  11. Smithers, Rebecca (22 August 2003). "Bright young things set record". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  12. "Achtjähriges Wunderkind: Klüger ohne Schule". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  13. Forsey, Zoe (24 November 2020). "'I took GCSE at 5 and went to Cambridge at 15 - but I believe it's nurture not nature'". London: Daily Mirror. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  14. Smithers, Rebecca (24 August 2001). "Integer sequences? Easy-peasy". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  15. Sloane, N. J. A. (ed.). "Sequence A057142 (Occurrences of most frequently occurring number in 1-to-n multiplication table)". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  16. List of sequences in OEIS authored by Arran Fernandez
  17. "Arran Fernandez MathSciNet profile".
  18. "Arran Fernandez Research Gate profile".
  19. "Arran Fernandez Google Scholar profile".
  20. "Frank Elstner: Menschen der Woche". Presseportal. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
  21. "The Terry and Gaby Show". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
  22. http://www.kibrispostasi.com/c91-EGITIM/n263459-dunyaca-unlu-genc-matematikci-daude-goreve-basladi-20092018. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. "New Faculty Member Assist. Prof. Dr. Arran Fernandez". Eastern Mediterranean University. 3 January 2019.


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