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The tragic genius William James Sids was born

William James Sidders
On April 1, 1898, the tragically genius William James Sidders was born, who was estimated to have an IQ of over 250.
His father, Boris Siders, was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who studied psychology and philosophy at Harvard University, followed by William James, and earned four degrees, while his mother earned a doctorate in medicine at Boston University.
Genius eventsEdit
Six months after birth, they will say "Aluminum".
8 months after birth: Earth's satellite is the moon.
18 months after birth, I could read the New York Times.
I learned Latin at the age of two, and Chinese at the age of three.
William James Siddhartha at Harvard.
William James Siddhartha at Harvard.
At the age of four, he could read the Epic of Homer in Greek and the War of the Gauls in Latin.
At the age of six, he studied anatomy and Aristotle's logic.
At the age of 7, passed the Harvard Medical School admission test.
Between the ages of 4 and 8, he wrote four books.Two books on anatomy and astronomy have been lost.
At the age of 8, pass the MIT entrance test. can fluently use Latin, Greek, French, Russian, Hebrew, Turkish, and invent a new language, call it Vendergood.
At the age of 9, he passed the Harvard University entrance test. But Harvard refused his father to let him enroll early. At the age of 10, he corrected errors in the manuscript of a professor of logic at Harvard University. At the age of 11, he entered Harvard and was proficient in advanced mathematics and celestial movement. For example, speaking about four-dimensional bodies at the Harvard Mathematics Club. A MIT professor once predicted that he would become a great mathematician and a leader in this field in the future.
At the age of 16, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and graduated with excellent results.
Shortly after graduation, he told reporters that he wanted to live a perfect life, which meant he wanted to hide. Reportedly, Siddhartha vowed to be single and never married, saying women could not attract him. Later, he fell in love with a woman named Martha Frey. Later, he entered the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Science.
From the age of 17 to 21, he taught at Harvard and continued his studies. He taught three subjects Euclidean Geometry, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Trigonometry (he wrote a textbook of Euclidean Geometry in Greek). Within a year, because of disappointment with the department and teaching requirements, and the poor treatment of his older students, he resigned and returned to New England. When asked by a friend why he was leaving, he said, "I don't understand why they offered me this position in the first place-I'm not good at teaching, it's not that I'm leaving, it's that I'm being asked to leave." At 18, he gave up his pursuit of a graduate degree in mathematics in favor of Harvard Law School, which he gave up again at 21, a year before graduation.
At the age of 21, he was arrested for participating in the socialist May Day * and sentenced to 18 months in prison, which caused a sensation based on his previous social fame. During the interrogation, he said he was an opponent of the First World War and a socialist. Later, he developed his own libertarian philosophy of individual rights and "American social continuity". His parents sent him to a sanatorium, set out to "reform" him, and threatened him with sending him to a mental hospital. After the age of 23, he lived an independent life, only engaged in jobs similar to manual work, alienated from his parents, and suffered social setbacks.
At the age of 46, he died of a stroke.In 1923, his father also died of a stroke at the age of 46.
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