Jacob Barnett (born Indianapolis, May 26, 1998) is a mathematician and astrophysicist who, while still a teenager, has become an orator of Physics classes at Indiana University.
Barnett was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism when he was 2 years old and was educated and taught privately by his parents.
His mother wrote a book about this educational journey.
He was just 12 years old when he was enrolled into college at the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, skipping 7 grades, having learned the majority of his school's math syllabus within two weeks.
At the age of 15 he became a PSI-student at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and is expected to receive a PhD in late 2014.
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