Genius -- Can you beat that? IQ 210 and doing calculus at four!

Kim Ung-yong is a Korean civil engineer and former child prodigy. Born on March 7, 1963,  Kim was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ"; the book gave the boy's score as about 210.

He started speaking at the age of 6 months and was able to read Japanese, Korean, German, English and many other languages by his third birthday!

When he was four years old, his father said he had memorized about 2000 words in both English and German.

By four years old, he had scored more than 200 on an IQ test normally given to seven-year-olds.

Wah, comel nya dia!

In another article, it was mentioned that when he was 5 years old, he already managed to master Chinese, Spain, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Germany, English and of course Korean.

On November 5, 1977, Kim solved complicated differential and integral calculus problems on Japanese television.

When he was 15 years old, he had his Ph.d in Physics from Colorado State University.
 
As of 2007 he also serves as adjunct faculty at Chungbuk National University.

Some other famous child prodigies in history,

Avicenna, (Ibnu Sina) Persian born (in 980), he was a child prodigy who grew up to become one of the world's greatest philosophers and physicians. His great work, the Canon of Medicine, was to remain the standard medical text both in the Islamic and Christian worlds until well into the 17th century.
He is credited with the discovery and explanation of contagious diseases and the first correct description of the anatomy of the human eye. As a philosopher, Avicenna is referred to as the Aristotle of Islam; as a physician, he is its Galen.


Blaise Pascal ( 17th century french mathematician),

William James Sidis ( IQ 250-300!) was in Harvard at age 11, a professor at 20

Akrit Jaswal, an Indian born teenage uni student, at 7, he performed surgery!

John Von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician who as a 6-year-old can divide eight-digit numbers in his head!

Jean Piaget a Swiss-born published his first scientific paper in 1906 when he was 10 years old, going on to publish multiple papers on (go figure) mollusks.

William Rowan Hamilton knew 14 languages.His most influential work was perhaps on algebra and quaternions, a number system that has gone on to become important today in everything from computer graphics to quantum physics to basic vector algebra.

Carl Frederich Gauss ( born in the 18th century) a mathematician at age 3, his important contributions were to algebra and number theory. He also did some work on magnetism, which is why you might have seen his name on a magnet: the Gauss is a unit used to measure magnetic field.






Various references, mostly wikipedia.

1. "Kim, Ung-Yong". Marquis Who's Who in America. 2012.
2.  "What ever became of 'geniuses'?". Time. December 19, 1977. Retrieved 2011-05-14. "South Korea's Kim Ung-Yong, a 14-year-old prodigy who was speaking four languages and solving integral calculus problems at age four, is said to tip the mental scales at 210, worth a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records."
3. "Korean genius, 4, poses problem for high school". The Washington Post. AP. April 10, 1967.
4. Refer here  and here