Struck by Genius
How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
$37.86
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2015
Summary
Jason Padgett was an ordinary, not terribly bright, 41-year-old working in his father’s furniture shop when he was the victim of a brutal mugging outside a karaoke bar in 2002.
That same night his stepfather died of cancer, and two weeks later his only brother went missing (his body was discovered three years later). The combined traumas of these three events proved, unsurprisingly, too much for Jason and he withdrew from life completely, living as a hermit for four years suffering wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755364602 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0755364600 |
| Author: | Jason Padgett, Maureen Seaberg |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Book Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 133mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Jason Padgett
Jason Padgett had struggled as a student and has spent his professional life working at his father’s shop, Planet Futon. Following a mugging outside a bar in 2002 he became agoraphobic and during that time at home he developed an unprecedented passion for learning. A chance encounter in a mall with a university physicist encouraged him to return to college where his genius is discovered, particularly his unique ability to hand draw mathematical fractals. He has Acquired Savant Syndrome and synesthesia and is believed to be unique.
Maureen Seaberg is a science journalist, and as a synesthete herself focuses on writing about synesthesia. She met Jason as a result of Google alert on the subject and introduced him to the neuroscientist that diagnosed his condition.
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