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William James Sidis (/ ˈ s aɪ d ɪ s /; April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author (whose works were published covertly due to never using his real name).
Nov 24, 2021 · After graduating from Harvard at the age of 16, Sidis went to Rice University to work as an assistant mathematics professor.
"Terman's work, following these people over 50+ years, even past the end of his lifetime, showed that most [prodigies] did in fact turn out to be well adjusted as adults and successful," Matthews says.
Jun 9, 2022 · Only forty-six years had elapsed along the arrow of time when William James Sidis undulated from the animate to the inanimate, his uncommon mind thrust into a coma by a brain hemorrhage, then extinguished.
Apr 8, 2023 · He published many of his works under false names and it’s believed we’ll never know how many books he actually published. But the work for which he is most remembered today is The Animate and Inanimate which was published in 1925 when Sidis was just 27 years old.
- Robbie Mitchell
Nov 7, 2006 · The work was described by one Sidis biographer as “the most boring book ever written.” William also alluded to the existence of dark matter before it had been formally theorized, and wrote about how one democratic Native American tribe may have strongly influenced the politics of America’s founders.
Sidis worked fulltime jobs and did his prodigious thinking and writing on his own time. The W. J. Sidis Archive presents here all of his writings found so far: four books; four pamphlets; 13 articles; four periodicals (36 issues); 89 weekly magazine columns; a design for a corporation owned and operated by a federation of its employees; and one ...
