Struck by genius

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The miraculous story of a life changed forever after a vicious mugging outside a karaoke bar. Like many brain injury victim's Jason was transformed, yet this time it was into a mathematical genius with a new focus and hunger for knowledge. Jason has already been featured in news stories worlwide. 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 with agrophobia and the onset of OCD. During this time he developed a fascination with the principles of the physical universe, devouring mathematics and physics journals. He also started to see intricate webs of shapes in his head and discovered that he could draw these by hand. This is his story.