We all have all our lives being told about the genuine Albert Einstein, but it turns out that the mathematician wasn’t as rare as we thought. And all of it started because of this 11-year-old boy.
While most kids his age were playing with toys, William Sidis was solving complicated mathematical equations and speaking multiple languages – he even made his own and enrolled at Harvard University.
Child prodigy
The young boy had a good head start in life. He was the son of a psychologist and a doctor, and both his parents nurtured young Sidis to focus on education. We already talked about the young boy’s advanced critical thinking capacity, but there was much more to him.
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He had an IQ far exceeding Albert Einstein’s and was the youngest to enroll in Harvard University. So, with so many remarkable accolades. Why isn’t William Sidis a household name? Well, here is what happened.