Wednesday, June 29, 2005
genius...
right...
in response to a past conversation i had with yk i have finally gotten round to searching the net for information on the man with the highest IQ...
this elusive character is William James Sidis and
this is his story :
(lifted from a
webpage)
- Given IQ is a purely anthropocentric means of assessing intelligence, Sidis' IQ is crudely estimated at 250-300.
- Infant Billy listened to Greek myths read to him by Sarah as bedtime stories.
- Started feeding himself with a spoon at eight months (after two months of trial and error).
- Cajoled by Boris, Billy learned to pronounce alphabetic syllables from blocks hanging in his crib.
- At six months, Billy said, "Door." A couple months later he told Mom he liked things, doors and people, that move.
- At seven months he pointed to Earth's moon and called it, "moon." He wanted a 'moon' of his own.
- Mastered higher mathematics and planetary revolutions by age 11.
- Learned to spell efficiently by one year old.
- Started reading The New York Times at 18 months.
- Started typing at three. Used his high chair to reach a typewriter. First composed letter was an order for toys from Macy's.
- Read Caesar's Gallic Wars, in Latin (self-taught), as a birthday present to his Father in Billy's fourth year.
- Learned Greek alphabet and read Homer in Greek in his fourth year.
- Learned Aristotelian logic in his sixth year.
- At six, Billy learned Russian, French, German, and Hebrew, and soon after, Turkish and Armenian.
- Calculated mentally a day any date in history would fall at age six. Absolutely fascinated by calendars.
- Learned Gray's Anatomy at six. Could pass a student medical examination.
- Billy started grammar school at six, in 3 days 3rd grade, graduated grammar school in 7 months.
- At age 8, Billy surpassed his father (a genius) in mathematics.
- Corrected E. V. Huntington's mathematics text galleys at age of eight.
- Total recall of everything he read.
- Wrote four books between ages of four and eight. Two on anatomy and astronomy, lost.
- Passed Harvard Medical School anatomy exam at age seven.
- Passed MIT entrance exam at age eight.
- Intellect surpassed best secondary school teachers.
- At age 10, in one evening, corrected Harvard logic professor Josiah Royce's book manuscript: citing, "wrong paragraphs."
- Attempted to enroll in Harvard at nine.
- In 1909, became youngest student to ever enroll at Harvard at age 11.
- In 1910, at age 11, lectured Harvard Mathematical Club on 'Four-Dimensional Bodies.'
- Billy graduated from Harvard, cum laude, on June 24, 1914, at age 16.
- Billy entered Harvard Law School in 1916.
- Billy could learn a whole language in one day!
- Billy knew all the languages (approximately 200) of the world, and could translate among them instantly!
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