Nine Year Old Prodigy is Worlds Cleverest Child

[ALien]

Ainan Cawley, a nine-year-old British prodigy, is thought to be one of the world's cleverest children.

Ainan Cawley, who lives in Singapore with his expatriate family, is studying chemistry at college. He passed a GCSE at the age of seven.

He can recite Pi - the number starting 3.14 that gives the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter - to 518 decimal places. He also knows the periodic table by heart.

His father Valentine Cawley keeps a blog on Ainan's progress titled "The boy who knew too much".

Mr Cawley said: "His vision is wide, ranging across the disciplines of physics, biology and chemistry - though with a particular emphasis on the latter; sometimes his insight seems prophetic, for he sees what is possible, rather than what is merely now.

"He is able to look ahead and see what might be, from what is.

"He has loads of friends his own age and plays games .. But he relates to adults as easily. He is a child very driven to explore and understand things, especially science."

Ainan will be featured in a documentary, The World's Cleverest Child and Me, on Channel 4 on Wednesday.

His younger brothers Fintan, five, and Tiarnan, three, are described by their father as, respectively, a "gifted child actor" and a "baby genius".

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