Long before the "Tiger Mother" phenomenon, around 1910, a man named Boris Sidis was touting his child-rearing methods. To those who knew of his son, William James Sidis was quite possibly the ...

In 1909 and 1910 one could scarcely pick up a newspaper that had not carried stories of the incredible mental exploits of William James Sidis, the 11-year-old son of a Harvard psychology professor.

On July 13, 1944, in a modest Boston boarding house, William James Sidis was found unconscious. He had suffered a massive stroke and passed away shortly after, marking the end of a life both ...

Within two years after William James Sidis’ father gave him alphabet blocks, he was writing French and English on a typewriter. He was then four. At five, employing a formula of his own devising ...

Essa era a realidade de William James Sidis, um indivíduo muito menos conhecido na cultura popular, mas que, segundo algumas estimativas, pode ter tido um QI entre 210 e 250. Os testes de QI ...

Apesar de sua extraordinária inteligência, o gênio Sidis não ficou mundialmente conhecido e suas ideias não são estudadas na universidade hoje. Parte disso pode ser explicado por sua morte ...

O americano William James Sidis, que nasceu em 1898 em Nova York, foi a pessoa mais inteligente de todos os tempos – pelo menos segundo os testes de QI. Ele ficou famoso por realizar proezas ...

When William James Sidis was barely 3 years old, the story goes, he taught himself a language: Latin. By the time William (aka Billy) was 6, he had added Russian, French, German, Hebrew ...

When William James Sidis was barely 3 years old, the story goes, he taught himself a language: Latin. By the time William (aka Billy) was 6, he had added Russian, French, German, Hebrew, Armenian and ...