The Man Who Knew Too Much?
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One can make a case that history's smartest person was William James Sidis (1898-1944), the son of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants to the U.S. He reportedly learned to read at a year and a half and write at three, and finished a seven-year public school course in six months at the age of six.
William James Sidis in 1914
SIdis entered Harvard at 11 abd gave a brilliant two-hour lecture to the mathematics club on four-dimensional bodies. In later life, however, Sidis become some critics to offer him as the classic example of a prodigy pushed too hard. He died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 46.
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