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Mar 22, 2019 · Addeddate 2019-03-22 19:12:37 Identifier TheAnimateAndTheInanimate.W.J.Sidis Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t87h94w6z Ocr
Others were June, 6 years old, and Dorothea, 9, daughters of Schuyler Patterson, the author, who have shown literary talent; Emma Lord, composer of children's music; David Farjeon, ten-year-old composer and pianist; Elizabeth Rollent, eleven-year-old dancer; Elizabeth Willguss and Jean Wilson, two twelve-year-old authors.
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William James Sidis ( / ˈsaɪdɪs /; 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). He wrote the book The Animate and the ...
- John W. Shattuck, Frank Folupa, Parker Greene, Jacob Marmor
- July 17, 1944 (aged 46), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- April 1, 1898, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
1 William James Sidis William James Sidis (1898-1944) is by some regarded as the most intellectually gifted person who ever lived. His IQ is estimated to have been between 250 and 300. At eighteen months he could read the New York Times. At two he taught himself Latin. At three he learned Greek. At four he was typing letters in French and English.
William James Sidis (in the only image of him as an adult, taken for a Harvard class album) died in 1944 at the age of 46. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives Norbert Wiener (in a classroom at MIT, circa 1949) became a pioneer in the field of cybernetics.
Jun 9, 2022 · Jacob’s Dream by William Blake, 1805. (Available as a print, as stationery cards, and as a face mask.) 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.
The William James Sidis personal archive chiefly consists of his writings and poetry, as well as some biographical materials, from the 1930s and early 1940s. The largest manuscript in the collection is a 617-page document about the history of the United States, entitled, Tribes and States: A History of the North American Continent.
