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Alia Sabur is now the world's youngest professor at 18 years old according to the Guinness World Record, breaking a 300-year-old record set by a student of physicist Isaac Newton, Colin Maclaurin, who set the mark in 1717.

Sabur was three days shy of her 19th birthday in February when she became a professor at Konkuk University, in Seoul. The previous record was held by a student of physicist Isaac Newton, Colin Maclaurin, who set the mark in 1717.

"He's in every calculus textbook there is," she said. "When I found out about it, I thought, 'I can't replace him.' But it's been 300 years and someone had to replace him, so why not me?"

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