Date: 8/10/2013 22:47:51
From: dv
ID: 409673
Subject: Arran Fernandez

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arran_Fernandez

Arran Fernandez, England, born June 1995, is a mathematician who in June 2013 became Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University, aged 18 years, 0 months. He is probably the youngest Senior Wrangler ever.

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.

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

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.

His television work has included an appearance as a “Person of the Week” on Frank Elstner’s chat show on German TV in 2001, and an appearance on Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin’s Terry and Gaby Show on British TV in 2003, when he beat mathematics populariser Johnny Ball in a live mental arithmetic contest, successfully extracting the fifth roots of several large integers.

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Date: 8/10/2013 22:58:18
From: Angus Prune
ID: 409680
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Wrangler is a real title? I pretty much assumed Pratchett made it up…

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Date: 8/10/2013 22:59:24
From: sibeen
ID: 409682
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Sounds like a bit of a girly swot.

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:05:37
From: Mr Ironic
ID: 409684
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Sir Kelvin only got second…

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:07:08
From: sibeen
ID: 409686
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Mr Ironic said:

Sir Kelvin only got second…

I do believe it was Lord Kelvin.

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:09:46
From: Mr Ironic
ID: 409687
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Sir Lord Baron…

Whatevea.

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:11:54
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 409688
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

sibeen said:


Sounds like a bit of a girly swot.

Girly swot? Wasn’t that your nickname in high school?

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:13:00
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 409689
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Angus Prune said:


Wrangler is a real title? I pretty much assumed Pratchett made it up…

I’m glad I’m not the only one.

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:18:18
From: Neophyte
ID: 409690
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Is he worse than Ivan Milat?

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:30:05
From: sibeen
ID: 409691
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Witty Rejoinder said:


sibeen said:

Sounds like a bit of a girly swot.

Girly swot? Wasn’t that your nickname in high school?

Unfortunately, my time at high school consisted of me be a complete and utter pest.

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:34:48
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 409692
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

sibeen said:

Unfortunately, my time at high school consisted of me be a complete and utter pest.


Nothing has changed then.

:-P

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:37:08
From: sibeen
ID: 409693
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Witty Rejoinder said:


sibeen said:

Unfortunately, my time at high school consisted of me be a complete and utter pest.


Nothing has changed then.

:-P

Oh, I’ll admit that. It is my nature, but hopefully I’ve tempered it over the years.

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:39:04
From: Michael V
ID: 409694
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

sibeen said:


Witty Rejoinder said:

sibeen said:

Sounds like a bit of a girly swot.

Girly swot? Wasn’t that your nickname in high school?

Unfortunately, my time at high school consisted of me be a complete and utter pest.

Ha!

I remember being like that. Second year: Most amount of cuts of the cane. (There was a competetion.) Also, Dux of the year…

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:44:18
From: Michael V
ID: 409696
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Here’s an eye – just replace the e.

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:44:40
From: wookiemeister
ID: 409697
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

competition

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:45:20
From: wookiemeister
ID: 409698
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

you were lucky that time

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:46:28
From: Michael V
ID: 409699
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Yep. :)

Not an eye for an eye – an eye for an e.

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:47:45
From: Michael V
ID: 409700
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

wookiemeister said:


you were lucky that time
Phew

(Wipes sweat from brow.)

(Wonders why sibeen wasn’t immediately on to it.)

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:50:26
From: sibeen
ID: 409701
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Michael V said:


wookiemeister said:

you were lucky that time
Phew

(Wipes sweat from brow.)

(Wonders why sibeen wasn’t immediately on to it.)

I do the grammar; Arts’ is the spelling nazi.

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:52:28
From: wookiemeister
ID: 409702
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

looks like dr Karl’s Hindenburg myth has just been busted?

http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/disaster/myths

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:53:07
From: wookiemeister
ID: 409703
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

sibeen said:


Michael V said:

wookiemeister said:

you were lucky that time
Phew

(Wipes sweat from brow.)

(Wonders why sibeen wasn’t immediately on to it.)

I do the grammar; Arts’ is the spelling nazi.


ah right

good cop bad cop

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:54:35
From: Michael V
ID: 409704
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

sibeen said:


Michael V said:

wookiemeister said:

you were lucky that time
Phew

(Wipes sweat from brow.)

(Wonders why sibeen wasn’t immediately on to it.)

I do the grammar; Arts’ is the spelling nazi.

What? Physician, heal thyself! (There’s an errant apostrophe in your last sentence.) :-)~P

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:56:38
From: wookiemeister
ID: 409706
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

i’m more like the bad smell you get ambushed by in a closed bathroom

you take a breath, choke then make the same mistake of taking another breath

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:57:36
From: wookiemeister
ID: 409707
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

wookiemeister said:


i’m more like the bad smell you get ambushed by in a closed bathroom

you take a breath, choke then make the same mistake of taking another breath


we’re all friends here Michael loosen up, didn’t you know everyone posts naked in this forum?

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Date: 8/10/2013 23:59:10
From: Michael V
ID: 409708
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Michael V said:


sibeen said:

Michael V said:

Phew

(Wipes sweat from brow.)

(Wonders why sibeen wasn’t immediately on to it.)

I do the grammar; Arts’ is the spelling nazi.

What? Physician, heal thyself! (There’s an errant apostrophe in your last sentence.) :-)~P
Oh, I see now. Not grammar. Punctuation. A subset of grammar, isn’t it?

A bit like the Alpha Romeo advertisement “It’s not a car, it’s an Alpha Romeo”. Good-oh, it’s a bloody tractor, then.

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Date: 9/10/2013 00:00:08
From: Michael V
ID: 409709
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

wookiemeister said:


wookiemeister said:

i’m more like the bad smell you get ambushed by in a closed bathroom

you take a breath, choke then make the same mistake of taking another breath


we’re all friends here Michael loosen up, didn’t you know everyone posts naked in this forum?

Eeeeeek!

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Date: 9/10/2013 00:01:24
From: sibeen
ID: 409711
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Michael V said:


Michael V said:

sibeen said:

I do the grammar; Arts’ is the spelling nazi.

What? Physician, heal thyself! (There’s an errant apostrophe in your last sentence.) :-)~P
Oh, I see now. Not grammar. Punctuation. A subset of grammar, isn’t it?

A bit like the Alpha Romeo advertisement “It’s not a car, it’s an Alpha Romeo”. Good-oh, it’s a bloody tractor, then.


\\

Punctuation was Steve, but he hasn’t been around for a while.

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Date: 9/10/2013 00:05:40
From: Michael V
ID: 409714
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Punctuation was Steve, but he hasn’t been around for a while.
—-
He’s amusing himself by taking on the born-agains on Yahoo Answers. He seems to love it. Especially when a question like “Why did Jesus die for me?” gets asked.

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Date: 9/10/2013 00:08:27
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 409716
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Michael V said:


Punctuation was Steve, but he hasn’t been around for a while.
—-
He’s amusing himself by taking on the born-agains on Yahoo Answers. He seems to love it. Especially when a question like “Why did Jesus die for me?” gets asked.

I suppose we all need a hobby… no matter how strange.

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Date: 9/10/2013 00:12:17
From: Michael V
ID: 409717
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Sure do.

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Date: 9/10/2013 07:06:54
From: buffy
ID: 409755
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

I also thought it was something Pratchett made up. I had never heard it before reading his books. I have noticed a wrangler in the credits for QI. It’s interesting….and rather quaint really:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Wrangler_%28University_of_Cambridge%29

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Date: 9/10/2013 10:06:59
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 409779
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

Especially when a question like “Why did Jesus die for me?” gets asked.

jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine.

was only listening to that yesterday.

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Date: 9/10/2013 10:11:42
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 409782
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

of course people know where those lyrics are from.

patti smith – horses – gloria.

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Date: 9/10/2013 14:04:28
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 409955
Subject: re: Arran Fernandez

>>His television work has included an appearance as a “Person of the Week” on Frank Elstner’s chat show on German TV

Well that’s it then, he’s made it.

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