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_The Prodigy_ (1986, E. P. Dutton) by Amy Wallace is a biography of one of America's greatest child prodigies William James Sidis. This book traces the life of Sidis from his earliest infancy in which his amazing intellectual powers were revealed to his experience at Harvard and eventually his decline and later life.
A Review of Amy Wallace's The Prodigy, The Prodigy is Amy Wallace's biography of William James Sidis, Given IQ is a purely anthropocentric means of assessing intelligence, Sidis' IQ is crudely estimated at 250-300, but Albert Einstein came up with the theory of relativity while working in a patent office, I had a feeling Sidis was up to more than most people thought, Amy compares Norbert ...
Dec 12, 2020 · Biography . William James Sidis was born on 01 Apr 1898 in New York, USA and his parents were Sarah (Mandelbaum) and Dr. Boris Sidis. He was an American child prodigy who could read at 2 years old. He had exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills.
TimeLife Bio. Bent Twig. Time-Life Books, 1991. (HTML text follows.) For William James Sidis, a fine mind — perhaps one of history's best—became a kind of deformity. Instead of following the expected meteoric career, the child prodigy opted for what seemed a life of mediocre obscurity that earned him the hatred of a disappointed public and ...
William James Sidis ( 1. huhtikuuta 1898 New York, Yhdysvallat – 1944) oli yhdysvaltalainen lapsinero ja matemaatikko, jolla väitetään olleen historian korkein älykkyysosamäärä. Hänen vanhempansa olivat venäjänjuutalaisia. Sidisin isä oli venäläisamerikkalainen psykologi Boris Sidis.
_The Prodigy_ (1986, E. P. Dutton) by Amy Wallace is a biography of one of America's greatest child prodigies William James Sidis. This book traces the life of Sidis from his earliest infancy in which his amazing intellectual powers were revealed to his experience at Harvard and eventually his decline and later life.
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Apr 6, 2024 · 어머니인 세라 맨들바움 사이디스(Sarah Mandelbaum Sidis/1874~1959)는 1889년 유대인 박해를 피해 미국으로 이민했다. 정규교육을 받지 못했음에도 불구, 1897년 보스턴 대학교 의대를 졸업한 뒤 의사가 되었다. 그러나 사이디스가 태어나면서 양육을 위해 의사직을 ...
