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How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
May 2014
On Sale: April 22, 2014
256 pages ISBN: 0544045602 EAN: 9780544045606 Kindle: B00E78ID5A Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed
when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary gift No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours
from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to
mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal
patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches,
revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the
objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn’t born this way. Twelve years ago, he had
never made it past pre-algebra. But a violent mugging
forever altered the way his brain works, giving him unique
gifts. His ability to understand math and physics
skyrocketed, and he developed the astonishing ability to
draw the complex geometric shapes he saw everywhere. His
stunning, mathematically precise artwork illustrates his
intuitive understanding of complex mathematics. The first documented case of acquired savant syndrome with
mathematical synesthesia, Padgett is a medical marvel.
Struck by Genius recounts how he overcame huge setbacks and
embraced his new mind. Along the way he fell in love, found
joy in numbers, and spent plenty of time having his head
examined. Like Born on a Blue Day and My Stroke of Insight,
his singular story reveals the wondrous potential of the
human brain.
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