Excerpted from “Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel”

If you could see the world through my eyes, you would know how perfect it is, how much order runs through it, and how much structure is hidden in its tiniest parts. We’re so often victims of things – I see the violence too, the disease, the poverty stretching far and wide but the universe itself and everything we can touch and all that we are is made of the most beautiful geometric patterns imaginable. I know because they’re right in front of me. Because of a traumatic brain injury, the result of a brutal physical attack, I’ve been able to see these patterns for over a decade. This change in…

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The brain injury that made me a math genius