College Dropout Becomes Accidental Mathematical Genius After Brutal Mugging

When Jason Padgett was attacked by muggers outside a karaoke club in Tacoma, Wash., a decade ago, he thought he was going to die.

The attackers, who he said were after his leather jacket, kicked him in the head repeatedly. Miraculously, he not only survived the attack, but developed a mysterious mathematical gift as a result of it.

The 41-year-old does not see the world in the same way that most people do.

Everywhere he looks, he sees complex mathematical formulas -- like the Pythagorean theorem, for example. Every single little curve, every single spiral, every tree is part of that equation.

Padgett turns these formulas into intricate diagrams called fractals. He says that fractals are "shape(s) that when you take the shape a part into pieces, the pieces are the same or similar to the whole."

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