World’s smartest child prodigy
Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants on 1898 in New York City, the young William James Sidis could read the New York Times by 18 months, reportedly taught himself eight languages (Latin, Greek, French, Russian, German, Hebrew, Turkish, and Armenian) by age eight, and invented another, which he called Vendergood.
Some consider Sidis the smartest man who ever lived, with an estimated IQ of 250 to 300. In comparison, you only have to have an IQ of 136 to be a mere run of the mill genius, and your average person is somewhere in the 85 to 115 range.
He gave a lecture a Harvard at nine and entered Harvard at 11. Whereas I, at the age of 11, had mastered Pong.
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