Prodigies, by their nature, differ from the average children, their uniqueness is expressed in the fact that the level of intellectual development of young geniuses surpasses the level of other children of their age. Here are ten modern geeks who have achieved success in various fields of activity.
Michaela Foodolig
Michaela Irene Fudolig entered the University of the Philippines at age 11, and at 16 she graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Science in Physics - a graduate with a farewell speech. Mikaela is currently working as a professor at the same university and is engaged in econophysics - mathematical modeling of behavior in systems and biological systems.
Akrit Yasval
Akrit Pran Yaswal from India became famous when he performed his first surgery - he was then only seven years old. Although he was not yet a doctor at that time, he already had a reputation as a medical genius in a narrow circle of acquaintances. His eight-year-old friend suffered severe burns on his arm, and Akran parted his fingers.
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At the age of 12, Akran entered the medical university, and by the age of 17 he had earned a master's degree in applied chemistry. Today he is looking for a cure for cancer.
Taylor wilson
Taylor Ramon Wilson became the youngest person in the world to create a working fuzor - a device designed for nuclear fusion reactions. At the age of 10, he designed a nuclear bomb and made a fuzor when he was 14. In May 2011, Taylor received an award at the Intel International Science and Technology Fair for a transition radiation detector.
In February 2013, he spoke at the TED-2013 conference, where he spoke about his ideas for autonomous underground nuclear fission reactors. Taylor has developed a compact nuclear reactor that he says is capable of generating 50 MW of electricity, and the device needs to be refueled only once every 30 years.
Cameron Thompson
Cameron Thompson is a math genius from North Wales. When he was four years old, he corrected his teacher for saying that zero is the smallest number by stating that he had forgotten about negative numbers. At the age of 11, he earned a degree in mathematics from the Open University of Great Britain. At the same age, the boy successfully passed two final exams at a math school and was featured on the BBC as one of the brilliant teenagers. Unfortunately, Cameron has learning difficulties due to Asperger's disease, but nevertheless he is one of the youngest mathematical geniuses in the world.
Jacob Barnett
Jacob Barnett is an American mathematician. When he was two years old, he was diagnosed with severe autism: doctors said that he would not be able to speak, read, and perform minor everyday activities. At the age of three, it turned out that the doctors were grossly mistaken - Jacob could tell the alphabet in forward and backward order.
At the same age, while visiting the planetarium, Jacob answered the host's question about why the moons of Mars are so strangely shaped. He entered Indiana University at Indianapolis at the age of 10.
While working on his doctoral dissertation, Barnett argued that one day he could refute Einstein's theory of relativity. He is currently working on a PhD in Quantum Physics.
Mark Tian Boediharjo
Born in Hong Kong, Mark Tian Boediharjo is the youngest person to enter Hong Kong University at the age of nine. He studied in a special program with a special focus on mathematics and statistics, while at the same time he passed eight final exams at school.
Mark now has two degrees, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Master of Philosophy in Mathematics, which he earned in 2011, a year ahead of the curriculum. He is currently pursuing his Ph. D. in mathematics in the United States.
Priyanshi Somani
Priyanshi Somani from India has an amazing ability to carry out complex mathematical calculations in his mind. At the age of six, she mastered verbal counting, and at 11 took first place in the Mental Calculation World Cup: Priyanshi beat 36 other competitors from 16 countries by calculating the square root of ten six-digit numbers in a record 6 minutes and 51 seconds. To top it off, she was the only contestant in the history of the competition to make no mistakes in addition, multiplication, and square root extraction.
Priyanshi became the new world record holder in mental square root extraction in January 2012 when she calculated the square root of ten six-digit numbers in 2 minutes and 43 seconds.
Akim Kamara
Akim Kamara is a violinist from Berlin. He started playing the violin at the age of two and has a remarkable memory of music, which he heard in his diapers. His teacher noticed his natural "ear for music" and began teaching the boy music lessons twice a week. Akim learned to play the violin extremely quickly, in just six months of training, and made his debut in December 2003 at the age of three at a Christmas concert.
Ethan Bortnik
Ethan Bortnik is a musician, songwriter, and actor. When he was three years old, he started playing the harpsichord, and at the age of five, he started writing music. His debut performance took place on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2007, after which the boy performed several times in the future.
Ethan entered the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest solo artist in the world. He is also the youngest headliner to ever perform in Las Vegas - the concert took place when Ethan was ten years old.
Tanish Matthew Abraham
Tanish Matthew Abraham is one of the youngest members of Mensa, where he joined at the age of four. His genius manifested itself at four months, when he began to look through children's books and correctly answer questions about their content.
On joining Mensa, he scored 99.9% on Mensa's standardized IQ test. At the age of five, Tanish completed five mathematics courses at Stanford University's Gifted Youth Education Program in just six months.
At six, he entered high school and then college - in all subjects, his GPA never fell below 4.0. He also frequently publishes essays on the NASA Lunar Institute website.