The violent attack that turned a man into a maths genius
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The attitude of the public seems to be that math is something you're supposed to just "get" automatically by having a gift in your brain, as if it's not a knowledge-based discipline that takes years of study. I think this comes from mental math being confused for actual math---and mental math ability is probably genetic.
You are most likely to end up having to work with something that cannot be drawn or calculated and is superbly abstract, like some mappings from one theoretical concept to another.
Sure, you can draw some "projections" from certain things to other things, or "draw" an analogy to something simpler, but still most of the things are highly abstract and are nowhere "simple" as numbers, or geometric figures or something similar.
I think this is true at least in theoretical math research.
Do people believe this shit?
I get it makes for a great movie, which it is being made into, but a knock on the head a math genius not makes. Nor does it improve maths.
Kudos to him for making money though.
His TEDx talk shows some of his craziness. I guess if you believe this story you'll love the talk.
Again conspiracy theories are interesting, I watch Sci-Fi which is just a conspiracy theory made for TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyYQIcZacvA
He might have brought on synesthesia though, which is actually interesting and perhaps real.
Vibration theory of olfaction which he mentions in the TED talk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_theory_of_olfaction
Would you consider rewording your comment to make it less confrontational? I think it's important to challenge dubious stories like this one.
Words written in coloured ink are difficult for her to read, and trying to read "rainbow" coloured text is virtually impossible as it makes her feel sick.