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Arran Fernandez (born June 1995, Britain) is a mathematician who in June 2013 became Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University, aged 18 years and 0 months. He is probably the youngest Senior Wrangler ever.^[1]{{#tag:ref|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]}}

In October 2010, when he 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.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Prior to university, he 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.^[9] In 2003 he became the youngest ever person to gain an A* grade at GCSE, also for Mathematics.^[10]^[11]

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.^[12]^[13]^[14]

His television work has included an appearance as a "Person of the Week" on Frank Elstner's chat show on German TV in 2001,^[15] and an appearance on Terry Wogan and

Gaby Roslin's Terry and Gaby Show on British TV in 2003,^[16] when he beat mathematics populariser Johnny Ball in a live mental arithmetic contest, successfully extracting the fifth roots of several large integers.

References

1. ^{{cite news |title=Student, 18, youngest ever to come top in Cambridge maths finals |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date= 21 June 2013}}
2. ^Wilkinson, James H. {{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Computer Science|publisher=Springer London|year=2003|first=Sven|last=Hammarling|isbn=0-470-86412-5}}
3. ^{{cite book |title=Arthur Cayley: mathematician laureate of the Victorian age |last=Crilly |first=Tony |year=2006 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location= |isbn=0-8018-8011-4 |page=160 }}
4. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2010/jan/07/uk-14-year-old-prodigy-offered-place-at-cambridge|title=14-Year-Old Prodigy Offered Place at Cambridge |accessdate=2015-08-30|publisher=San Diego Union Tribune}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/boy-who-broke-gcse-record-at-five-is-off-to-cambridge-6509443.html |title=Boy who broke GCSE record at five is off to Cambridge |accessdate=2018-09-07 |publisher=London Evening Standard }}
6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/jan/07/cambridge-university-14-arran-fernandez|title=Cambridge University offers place to 14-year-old|accessdate=2010-01-08|publisher=The Guardian | location=London | first=Sam | last=Jones | date=2010-01-07| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109193203/http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/07/cambridge-university-14-arran-fernandez| archivedate= 9 January 2010 | deadurl= no}}
7. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/maths-prodigy-arran-fernandez-is-the-youngest-cambridge-fresher-since-1773-2098824.html|title=Maths prodigy Arran Fernandez is the youngest Cambridge fresher since 1773|accessdate=2011-01-16|publisher=The Independent|date=2010-10-06|location=London|first=Richard|last=Garner}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://qn.quotidiano.net/esteri/2010/09/03/379427-ragazzino_anni.shtml|title=Un ragazzino di 15 anni si è iscritto a Cambridge, è record|accessdate=2011-01-16|publisher=Quotidiano.net|date=2010-09-03}}
9. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1505857.stm|title=GCSE success stories|accessdate=2008-09-16|publisher=BBC | date=2001-08-23}}
10. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/aug/22/gcses2003.gcses4|title=Bright young things set record|accessdate=2008-09-16|publisher=The Guardian | location=London | first=Rebecca | last=Smithers | date=2003-08-22}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/schulspiegel/0,1518,262971,00.html|title=Achtjähriges Wunderkind: Klüger ohne Schule|accessdate=2009-02-14|publisher=Der Spiegel}}
12. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/aug/24/gcses2001.gcses1|title=Integer sequences? Easy-peasy|accessdate=2009-02-14|publisher=The Guardian | location=London | first=Rebecca | last=Smithers | date=2001-08-24}}
13. ^{{Cite OEIS|1=A057142|2=Occurrences of most frequently occurring number in 1-to-n multiplication table|accessdate=2009-02-14}}
14. ^List of sequences in OEIS authored by Arran Fernandez
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/280702/swr_suedwestrundfunk/|title=Frank Elstner: Menschen der Woche|accessdate=2009-02-13|publisher=Presseportal}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/779374|title=The Terry and Gaby Show|accessdate=2009-02-13|publisher=British Film Institute}}