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Jan 22, 2018 · The book takes us from William James Sidis and Norbert Wiener, Jewish prodigies at Harvard at the beginning of the twentieth century (Sidis was the subject of a profile by James Thurber, of all ...
Mar 24, 2023 · William James Sidis often lays claim to the title of the smartest man ever.. Sidis was estimated to have an IQ in the 250–300 range. While accepted to Harvard at the age of 9 years old, the ...
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W illiam James Sidis was born in 1898 to Russian immigrants -- intellectual refugees from the pogroms. Sidis's father, Boris, was brilliant, and William James trained him in psychology at Harvard. The boy's mother, Sarah, gave up her own medical ambitions to forge intellectual greatness in their young son. Young Sidis could read at 18 months.
Jan 6, 2021 · The Animate and the Inanimate was a book written by child prodigy and polymath William James Sidis (1898-1944), detailing his thoughts on the origins of life, cosmology, the potential reversibility of the second law through Maxwell's Demon, among other things.It was published in 1925, however it is suggested that Sidis was working on the theory as early as 1916.
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William James Sidis was a genius. He was by far the most precocious intellectual child of his generation. His death in 1944 as an undistinguished figure was made the occasion for reawakening the old wives tales about nervous breakdowns, burned out prodigies and insanity among geniuses. Young Sidis was truly an intellectual phenomenon. His childhood
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Mar 12, 2002 · For example, Dr. Winner noted that the mathematician Norbert Wiener was a contemporary of William Sidis and that the two had much in common. Like Mr. Sidis, Dr. Wiener had been spookily smart as a ...
This is in accordance with some recent discoveries. The late Prof. William James has discovered in the domain of mental phenomena what he calls "reserve energy," which later investigation has shown to be present to a more limited extent in all biological phenomena.
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