Born in Boston in 1898, William James Sidis made the headlines in ... prodigies have multiple abilities," Wallace says. As a young boy, Sidis invented his own language and wrote French poetry ...

This speech was only one of the many astonishing accomplishments of young Sidis ... philosopher who watched over his upbringing, William James Sidis was the son of one of the pioneers in modern ...

Within two years after William James Sidis’ father gave him alphabet ... After a stay at his father’s sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical ...

WILLIAM JAMES, after whom the boy is named ... serves to account for young SIDIS'S apparent precocity. It is the familiar principle of "second wind." Fatigue increases to a certain critical ...

When William James Sidis was barely 3 years old ... eschewed physical activity for young Billy, instead engaging his son in debates about psychology and all sorts of other academic pursuits.