12 years ago, Jason Padgett was a simple 30 year old man from Anchorage, Alaska when he left the university to work in the furniture shop of his father. However, a fight in a bar changed his life forever. When he recovered from a heavy hit on the head he discovered that he was seeing the world from a completely different perspective: that of mathematics and physics. Padgett is one of the 40 people around the world who was diagnosed with the syndrome of acquired savant, in which erstwhile ‘ordinary’ people become geniuses in mathematics, arts or music after a brain injury. Padgett, who today is 43 year old, wrote about the experience that changed his life in the autobiographical book “Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel“, which has just released in the U.S. and Britain. As he writes, it all started on September 13, 2002, when two men attacked him from behind in a bar. Paget was taken to hospital with a head injury and then returned home. However, the next morning he woke up and found that his vision had changed and he could see the details in the objects around him which did not exist before...
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:00:16 +0000
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