KOREAN CIVIL ENGG. UNDERSTOOD ALGEBRA AT AGE THREE

im Ung-yong (born March 7, 1963) is a Korean civil engineer and former child prodigy. 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. At age 3, he was able to solve complicated calculus equations easily with no problems. When he was four years old, his father said he had memorized about 2000 words in both English and German. He was writing poetry in Korean and Chinese and wrote two very short books of essays and poems (less than 20 pages)