Twelve-year-old Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170, which is higher than Einstein’s, “and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.” Even more surprising, everything he knows was self-taught, without the help of any teachers. He is currently tutoring students in his free time. Continue reading to watch him teach internet users Calculus 2.

And now Jake has embarked on his most ambitious project yet – his own ‘expanded version of Einstein’s theory of relativity’. His mother, not sure if her child was talking nonsense or genius, sent a video of his theory to the renowned Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University.

[via BuzzfeedDailyMail]

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