Jason Padgett was a 31 years old salesman, who "chased girls, and thought math is stupid" when a violent incident changed everything.
On 13/9/2001 Padgett was attacked and robbed by two men outside a karaoke bar. The attackers hit his head and Jason suffered form a severe concussion.
From that moment Jason sight changed and he became extremely sensitive to geometric shapes, and Fractals particularly.
In his words "Water coming down the drain didn’t look like it was a smooth, flowing thing anymore, it looked like these little tangent lines".
Suddenly Jason was able to draw by hand geometric patterns which he never imagined:
Jason started studying Math and became a number theorist, artist, and wrote a book called "Struck by genius"
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190411-the-violent-attack-that-turned-a-man-into-a-maths-genius
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