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1. www.findagrave.com › memorial › 19750232William James Sidis (1898-1944) - Find a Grave Memorial

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   William James Sidis. Linguist and Mathematician. Sidis, named for family friend, Prof. William James, was born to Boris and Sarah, who were intellectuals in their own right. There are many instances of William's profound and precocious genius as a young boy.

2. www.newyorker.com › 08 › 14WHERE ARE THEY NOW? | The New Yorker

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   Today he is living in a hall bedroom of Boston's shabby end, working as a clerk in a business house. Sidis died July 17, 1944. This information from a reader who was doing research on him.

3. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org › william-sidisWilliam Sidis - Jewish Virtual Library

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   William James Sidis was born to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants on April 1, 1898, in New York City. His father, Boris Sidis, Ph.D., M.D., had emigrated in 1887 to escape political persecution. His mother, Sarah (Mandelbaum) Sidis, M.D., and her family had fled the pogroms in 1889. Sarah attended Boston University and graduated from its School of ...

4. www.sidis.net › BioWilliamJamesSidisBio of William Sidis

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   Boston Herald, July 18, 1944. His death after a lifetime of press attention was international news. ----- The Hidden Genius New York Times, Wednesday, July 19, 1944, p.18 'Burnout' one last time.----- "Sidis' Boyhood Seen Case of All Work and No Play" by Alice Burke

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5. www.haaretz.com › jewish › 2015/07/171944: ‘Smartest Man in the World’ Dies Very Young and Very ...

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   Jul 17, 2015 · On July 17, 1944, former child prodigy William Sidis died at 46. Sidis had become a celebrity when he entered Harvard College at age 11, and within a year was lecturing to the university mathematics club on the topic of “four-dimensional properties.”

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   Feb 12, 2023 · William James Sidis, the man who could have changed the world, was the victim of his parents’ ambitions, media sensationalism, and political circumstances. All he wanted was to be left alone...

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   How old was William Sidis when he died?

   • Pushed by his father, William Sidis had written four books by age 8, but those meanies at Harvard wouldn’t let him in until he was 11. William Sidis. On July 17, 1944, former child prodigy William Sidis died at 46.

   1944: ‘Smartest man in the world’ dies very young and very alone

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   Who was William James Sidis?

   • Reminiscent story of William James Sidis, the boy genius who at the age of 11 lectured on the Fourth Dimension at a gathering of about 100 professors & advanced students of mathematics from Harvard University. At the age of 16 he entered Harvard Law School. He attended law school quitely for three years, but his main interest was mathematics.

   WHERE ARE THEY NOW? | The New Yorker

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   How did William James Sidis become famous?

   • Sidis became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. Eventually, he avoided mathematics altogether, writing on other subjects under a number of pseudonyms. William James Sidis was born to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants on April 1, 1898, in New York City.

   William Sidis - Jewish Virtual Library

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   Who was Bill Sidis?

   • Bill Sidis was a quiet man who enjoyed the normal things of life. His friends respected him and enjoyed his company. I am glad to have been one of his friends." — Shirley S. Smith, Wellesley Hills And all the while, he adhered to the Okamakammesset principle of anonymous contribution. —Dan Mahony (Click/tap to open, enlarge.)

   Bio of William Sidis

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8. www.sidis.net › herald1919Boston Herald, May 4,1919 - Sidis

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   William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury Municipal Court yesterday that he is a Socialist, a believer in the soviet form of government, that he believed in evolution, that he does not believe in a god, that his god is evolution, and that he believes in our form of ...