In 1909 and 1910 one could scarcely pick up a newspaper that had not carried stories of the incredible mental exploits of William James Sidis, the 11-year-old son of a Harvard psychology professor ...

Within two years after William James Sidis' father gave him alphabet blocks, he was writing French and English on a typewriter. He was then four. At five, employing a formula of his own ...

The New Yorker, August 14, 1937 P. 22 Reminiscent story of William James Sidis, the boy genius who at the age of 11 lectured on the Fourth Dimension at a gathering of about 100 professors ...