Meet the little boy who can recite the periodic table and name EVERY country on a world map – so are you as brainy as him?

A PROUD mum claims her toddler could be the next Einstein after he taught himself to read, learned the periodic table and can name any country on a map – at the age of three.

Cat Lewis revealed footage of her 'boy genius' tot Thomas naming every country in the world on a map with near 100 per cent accuracy last week.

The mum-of-two was filmed Thomas after she saw five-year-old Nate Seltzer on the Ellen Degeneres Show, who could name every state in the USA and world flags.

Neighbours have told Cat that her son could be the next Stephen Hawking after he learnt the periodic table off by heart, can name all 50 US states and their capitals, and left his parents bewildered when they discovered he had learned to read by himself.

Cat, from Woking, Surrey, said: "My neighbour calls him the next Stephen Hawking. He's very bright – even his head teacher said he's very exceptional. I keep on telling Thomas that eventually he'll have nothing left to learn."

Remembering the first time she saw Thomas reading, she added: "I think at the time I probably said to him 'what are you doing? Did you just read that? He just said 'yes I like reading sometimes.'

"He's always reciting the alphabet and just after his birthday last year, he was just sat in bed reading – and we didn't even know that he could read.

"The books were for children of the age group of about four or five and he could just read them after he'd turned three."

Even though proud mum Cat insists he's just like any other three-year-old, she admitted that Thomas' abilities might be down to an extraordinary capacity for information retention.

Cat said: "I first noticed he was different around 18 months. He had an obsession with numbers and letters and he knew the alphabet. He could just recite numbers and letters.

"He can do other things too. For example, he can see numbers that are really small - numbers that even I can't see.

We could be going past a lamp post and he can just tell us what number it is before we even get to it."

Cat is looking forward to watching her son start school this year – and seems perfectly happy with Thomas' career ambitions.

Cat said: "He's due to start school in September. We told the teachers he's clever and that I'm not just one of 'those mums' that says her son is very clever – he actually is.

"When he's talking to the adults he's got his adult hat on, but when he's talking to other kids he's just a regular three year old.

"In the future I picture him as some kind of scientist, or that kind of a brainy job. But right now he says he wants to be an ice cream man."