Arran Fernandez

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 was probably the youngest Senior Wrangler ever.[1][4]

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.[5][6][7][8][9]

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.[10] In 2003 he became the youngest ever person to gain an A* grade at GCSE, also for Mathematics.[11][12]

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.[13][14][15] Starting in 2017, he has had several mathematical research articles published in peer-reviewed international journals.[16][17][18]

His television work has included an appearance as a "Person of the Week" on Frank Elstner's chat show on German TV in 2001,[19] and an appearance on Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin's Terry and Gaby Show on British TV in 2003,[20] 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, he joined the faculty of the Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus as an assistant professor of mathematics.[21][22] His main research areas are in fractional calculus and analytic number theory.