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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.
Boris Sidis Archive. P resents nearly all of the writings of this great psychologist. You'll find here 16 of his 17 books. Find also 45 of his 57 scientific-journal and popular-magazine articles (most of the topics of the other 12 are dealt with in his book s); 22 reviews of 13 of his works; and, we assume, all available biographical material.
William James Sidis. William James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy born to Jewish emigrants from Ukraine with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills. He is notable for his 1920 book The Animate and the Inanimate, in which he postulates the existence of dark matter, entropy and the origin of life in ...
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- July 17, 1944
- April 1, 1898
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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.
William James Sidis (1898 - 1944). William James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills who was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author (whose works were published covertly due to never using his real name).
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. His father, Boris Sidis, Ph.D., M.D ...
Jun 26, 1986 · The Prodigy: A Biography of William James Sidis, America's Greatest Child Prodigy Hardcover – June 26, 1986. by Amy Wallace (Author) 4.3 244 ratings. See all formats and editions.
