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A Beautiful Mind: Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 15:35
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In 2002, two men savagely attacked Jason Padgett outside a karaoke bar, leaving him with a severe concussion and post-traumatic stress disorder. But the incident also turned Padgett into a mathematical genius who sees the world through the lens of geometry.
Padgett, a furniture salesman from Tacoma, Washington, who had very little interest in academics, developed the ability to visualize complex mathematical objects and physics concepts intuitively. The injury, while devastating, seems to have unlocked part of his brain that makes everything in his world appear to have a mathematical structure …. http://www.livescience.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-beautiful-mind-brain-injury-turns-man.html
