Real 'Beautiful Mind': College Dropout Became Mathematical Genius After Mugging

Neal Karlinsky & Meredith Frost:

Working behind the counter at a futon store in Tacoma, Wash., is not the place you would expect to find a man some call a mathematical genius of unprecedented proportions.

Jason Padgett, 41, sees complex mathematical formulas everywhere he looks and turns them into stunning, intricate diagrams he can draw by hand. He's the only person in the world known to have this incredible skill, which he obtained by sheer accident just a decade ago.

"I'm obsessed with numbers, geometry specifically," Padgett said. "I literally dream about it. There's not a moment that I can't see it, and it just doesn't turn off."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 4, 2012 1:54 AM
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