The most gifted man on the planet

On April 1, 1898, in New York City, William James Sidis was born into a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. William's parents - Boris and Sarah Sidis, who emigrated to America, fleeing pogroms, were quite outstanding specialists in their fields. Boris Sidis, who wrote many books, taught psychology at Harvard University. Sarah Sidis was a doctor, but gave up her career, giving all her strength to the education of William. Using their own methods of education, for which they were often criticized, the child’s parents wanted to make William an outstanding genius. At age 6, William became an atheist, remaining an atheist for the rest of his life. At 18 months old, he was reading The New York Times! Before his eighth birthday, he wrote four books. The IQ of a genius is estimated at 250 to 300 (the highest IQ ever). At the age of 11, he went to Harvard.

William James Sidis was the most outstanding child prodigy among the young geniuses who studied at Harvard in 1909. Among them were composer Roger Sessions and Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics. All his life Sidis was a socially passive person. After devoting his life to developing his own intelligence, instead of caring for girls, he gave up sex altogether. His interests, surprisingly, manifested themselves in very visceral forms. He, for example, collected train tickets across the country, and wrote a study called Alternative History of the United States. William spoke about 40 languages (some say 200 languages), fluently translating from one language to another. In adulthood, he worked as an ordinary accountant, and as soon as his genius was discovered, he immediately quit his job. He dressed in ordinary rural clothes.





Many blame Sidis’s parents for his very intensive developmental methods and for William Sidis’s early admission to university. Using modern standards, scientists classify him as an extremely gifted person. However, some critics use Sidis’s example as an example of the fact that very gifted young people may not always achieve success in its traditional sense as adults.

William James Sidis. Sidis left his studies in history, cosmology and psychology. Some works have only begun to gain recognition in our time. In a treatise on railway tickets, written under the pseudonym "Franck Falup", he identified ways in which to increase the capacity of the transport network. William Sidis received a patent in 1930 for a permanent infinite calendar that took leap years into account. All his life he hid from journalists and did ordinary accounting work, not using his unique mathematical abilities in ordinary life. Sidis devoted himself to his only hobby: collecting train tickets. William James Sidis died in 1944 of a brain hemorrhage.



Some biographers of William James Sidis regard him as perhaps the most gifted person ever to have lived. Some of the biography of Sidis that gave rise to this opinion.



William James Sidis learned to write by the end of his first year.

Read Homer in the original in the fourth year of life.

At the age of 6 he studied Aristotelian logic.

Between 4 and 8 years he wrote four books, one of which is a monograph on anatomy.

At the age of 7, William successfully passed the anatomy exam at Harvard Medical School.

By the age of 8, he knew eight languages - German, French, English, Greek, Russian, Hebrew, Latin, and another, invented by himself.

In adulthood, William spoke 40 languages, and according to some authors, this number was 200 languages.

Already at the age of 11, William Sidis successfully entered Harvard University, and very soon he began to lecture at the mathematics club of the university.

Harvard University he graduated at 16 years old with distinction



Source: Nepovtorimosti.ru



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