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  1. Feb 12, 2023 · Sidis spent his childhood at Harvard. Boris Sidis tried to get William to Harvard at the age of nine but they rejected the application. Dear Sir, sorry, your son should be twice as old, yours ...

  2. Jan 11, 2024 · Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly life of William Sidis. The Good Boris and Sarah Sidis (pronounced Sy-dis) were Jews who fled the Ukrainian pogroms in the mid-1880s for America.

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  4. Jan 20, 2021 · The Tragic Story of William James Sidis. William James Sidis was a mathematical genius. With an IQ of 250 to 300, he was described by the Washington Post as a ‘ boy wonder ’. He read the New York Times at 18 months, wrote French poetry at 5 years old, and spoke 8 languages at 6 years old. At 9 years old, he passed the entry exam at Harvard ...

  5. Boris and Sarah Sidis, the patron saints of helicopter parents. :-) Though their efforts were admirable, such constant pressure on a child can backfire in a big way, as it did here. As for the 300 IQ, it is extremely difficult to calculate such a number due to the complexity of the human mind and the limitations of IQ tests.

  6. Nov 24, 2021 · In 1925 he published a remarkable book on cosmology in which he predicted black holes — 14 years before Chandrasekhar did. But primarily he fled his childhood, and he fled his parents. He kept ...

  7. Aug 9, 2021 · Boris Sidis, driven to this country by the Russian pogroms of the late 19th Century, underwent incredible hardships before becoming a Harvard teacher. Along the way he married Sarah Mandelbaum, a ...

  8. Jan 18, 2024 · William James Sidis’ entrance into Harvard University at the age of 11 marked a new chapter in his already remarkable life. His intellectual capabilities were not just about learning languages ...

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