Math genius at age 12

Some of you might enjoy reading this article... a 12-year old boy (Jacob Barnett) is about done studying college-level studies in astrophysics and they want him to start doing research. He's also mildly autistic.

Genius at work: 12-year-old is studying at IUPUI


IUPUI is interested in him moving from the classroom into a funded researcher's position.
"We have told him that after this semester . . . enough of the book work. You are here to do some science," said IUPUI physics Professor John Ross, who vows to help find some grant funding to support Jake and his work.

Comments

Anonymous said…
simply Gr8
Unknown said…
This is a simple amazing story! And the fun part is that he goes to my university, IUPUI,
Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis

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