A young British-Nigerian math genius named Esther Okade earned a Bachelor’s degree in Financial Mathematics from the UK Open University at 13 after an outstanding performance.
Esther, a math genius since childhood, was said to have started solving high-level mathematics, including quadratic equations, when she was three years old. According to her mother, Omonefe Okade, Esther had wanted to enrol in university at 7.
When Esther was six years old, she was awarded a grade C in GCSE math and ultimately qualified to sit A-level math exams. At the time, the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom invited her to study mathematics at the institution.
However, Esther’s parents had her homeschooled. In 2015, when Esther was 10 years old, she enrolled at Open University (a UK-based distance learning college) for a university maths course, making her the youngest undergraduate student in the UK.
A few weeks after Esther got enrolled at the university, she got straight A’s and ultimately became the best student in her class. She described her first test as “easy” after scoring a perfect 100%.
“It’s so interesting. It has the type of math I love. It’s real math—theory, complex numbers, all that type of stuff—and it was super easy. My mum nicely taught me,” she told CNN.
