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Jacob Barnett is an American mathematician and child prodigy. At 8 years old, Jacob began sneaking into the back of college lectures at IUPUI. After being diagnosed with autism since the age of two and placed in his school's special ed. program, Jacob's teachers and doctors were astonished to learn he was able to teach calculus to college students.
At age nine, while playing with shapes, Jacob built a series of mathematical models that expanded Einstein's field of relativity. A professor at Princeton reviewed his work and confirmed that it was groundbreaking and could someday result in a Nobel Prize. At age 10, Jacob was formally accepted to the University as a full-time college student and went straight into a paid research position in the field of condensed matter physics. For his original work in this field, Jacob set a record, becoming the world's youngest astrophysics researcher. His paper was subsequently accepted for publication by Physical Review A, a scientific journal shared on sites such as NASA, the Smithsonian, and Harvard's webpage. Jacob's work aims to help improve the way light travels in technology.
Jacob is also CEO and founder of Wheel LLC, a business he started in his mom's garage, and is in the process of writing a book to help end "math phobia" in his generation.
Jacob's favorite pastime is playing basketball with the kids at his charity, Jacob's Place. It is a place where kids with autism are inspired every day to be their true authentic selves...just like Jacob.
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Boise_LibThis kid irritates the hell out of me.
(Probably just my jealousy)
legacy0100I think he actually wanted to talk about two things during his speech. One of the point was to say he had accomplished all these great things despite doctors telling him he will never speak. That explains his over-cockiness. Except he never really says this in the beginning, and presents a different topic, which was at you need time to think on your own.
I think the speech would have been much more successful had he not tried to combine two topics all at once. But then again he's 11 years old. He's still human, despite his amazing accomplishments.
solecistif this kid was typing out this lecture he would be using "lol" as punctuation.
oohlalasassoon*Seizure Risk
But the kid has a point. Bravo young man.
messengerWhat works for geniuses won't necessarily work for everyone else. Formal education was apparently limiting for Newton, Einstein and Barnett, but for the rest of us, it's massively beneficial. It's like Usain Bolt telling an old granny to leave her cane at home because he used to carry one in the 100m dash, and when he got rid of it, his time improved.
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