Jason Padgett was a normal futon salesman. But following a traumatic brain injury, he suddenly acquired the brain power of a ...

FOND DU LAC - Jason Padgett used to be a young man who partied hard, chased girls, skipped class and went to work every day with a hangover. After he was mugged inside a karaoke bar in 2002 and ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

CARMEL – What you see… isn’t what he sees. And for Jason Padgett, it all started with a violent attack and a serious head injury. “When you see something move, your brain is taking pictures (and) ...

the extraordinary savant ability surfaces in early childhood. In acquired savant syndrome astonishing new abilities, typically in music, art or mathematics, appear unexpectedly in ordinary persons ...

Your checkbook’s a mess. It’s not really your fault. For some reason, you just don’t “get” numbers. Math eludes you completely. You have other talents, of course, but addition and subtraction aren’t ...

Ben Affleck makes math look more dangerous than ever before in the first trailer for “The Accountant.” Affleck plays Christian Wolff, an autistic savant and math genius who works as an accountant for ...