Posted on 04/25/2014 5:21:17 PM PDT by jsh3180
When Jason Padgett pours cream into his morning coffee, this is what he sees:
I watch the cream stirred into the brew. The perfect spiral is an important shape to me. Its a fractal. Suddenly, its not just my morning cup of joe, its geometry speaking to me.
Padgetts world is bursting with mathematical patterns. He is one of a few people in the world who can draw approximations of fractals, the repeating geometric patterns that are building blocks of everything in the known universe, by hand. Tree leaves outside his window are evidence of Pythagoras theorem. The arc that light makes when it bounces off his car proves the power of pi.
He sees the parts that make up the whole. And his world is never boring, never without amazement. Even his dreams are made up of geometry.
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This is my **favourite** guy that is like the man in the article...he is an English man named Daniel Tammet
Here he is in a neat clip from a documentary where he learned Icelandic in a week...it’s very touching to me. Especially since he seems like such a sweet man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4lgOiHBZo
And this is a clip of him on the David Letterman show where he explains his “condition” and how it may have been brought on by epileptic seizures and his autism. He also talks about memorizing pi to 22,000+ digits for charity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4lgOiHBZo
lol...I didn’t see your post. I just posted about him. Came across him on YouTube a few years ago. Very sweet man with incredible mind.
Then about the same time I came across Tammet, I also learned about this guy...he can paint/draw Rome to very precise detail (and other cities) after only a helicopter ride.
Steven Wiltshire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVqRT_kCOLI
You invited them to dinner?
I'd go with tiny little segments approaching one point in length. Amazing that those Greek dudes in togas had it all figured out and gave us "pi".
People who see the world in patterns are not all that rare. It's cool that a concussion could charge up those batteries and have a person see the world as it is.
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