Top 10 child prodigies from around the world (Last Part)

In the last episode of the five-part series, I will briefly describe the luminous minds of the earth including William James Sidis and Arfa Kareem Randhawa.

William James Sidis (USA)

Sidis is an American child prodigy, having extraordinary linguistic and mathematical abilities. Some consider him the smartest man who ever lived, with an estimated IQ of 250 to 300.

He passed Harvard Medical School anatomy exam when he was only seven-year-old.

At the age eight he was a published author of four books and was equally adept in eight other languages while he gave his first lecture at Harvard University at the age of nine.

In 1909, he was enrolled at the same university becoming the youngest student ever to enroll. He could even learn the whole language anatomy in a single day.

Surprisingly pictures of Sidis reveal that his head was only marginally bigger than average and not a throbbing translucent beach ball-sized dome. Word is he wasn’t even capable of shooting psychic death rays.

He could read at 18 months, had written four books and was fluent in eight languages at age seven, gave a lecture a Harvard at nine and entered Harvard at 11.

Despite his brilliance in the fields of mathematics and cosmology, we do have to question Sidis’ intelligence in one key area as he took a vow of celibacy his entire life and likely died a virgin.

Arfa Kareem (Pakistan)

Arfa Kareem Randhawa, who became the youngest ever Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), was belonged to Pakistan. She achieved this title only at the age of nine.

According to Microsoft, Karim is part of a select group, as one of only a few certified professionals in the world to qualify below the age of 10.

She was invited by Bill Gates himself and was also a talented port and wrote a poem about him.

Unfortunately this great mind passed away on January 13 at the young age of 16 due to a cardiac arrest and epileptic seizure.

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