Forget What You Know: Jacob Barnett at TEDxTeen

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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.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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[MrAkajesan]

This kid is smarter than me and i'm 22. LOL

this kid way more motivated than me like what the fuck.

Respect to this youngin,

[TheJoey22334]

This kid is amazing

[Isil181]

This is outstanding :). Everybody here leaving bad comments about his autism.. you have not the tiniest clue how hard it probably was for him to stand in front of this crowd.. explainig his brilliant brain to people who maybe have 10% of his understanding. He is trying so hard to fit in.. to get down to our level of thinking.. and tellig us every brain every thinking is special. This boy deserves a medal. I'm proud!

[avi20082009]

This guy is so irritating and annoying. Please spare me

[onthewaterr]

R.I.P English

[googleslocik]

to much adhd, cant listen morfe than 1 min

[onthewaterr]

I love that he's brilliant and has no ego at all.

[Kap pa]

wow cool and all but sry this is pain in my ears :(

[Vashetti]

There's no need to get upset about my comment because he has aspergers.

[MrWolf219]

He told his secret and once again you didn't understood it " LOOK THE WORLD IN YOUR OWN PRESPECTIVE" every perspective of every single human is unique the only think that makes him diffrent from us is that he expresses his prespective of the world around him by observing details of his surrounding. The only awesome is that he figure it out at the age of 12 nothing further nothing less.

In the end he is the normal guy!!!!