I looked into the “math genius” (Jason Padgett) a few months ago and found zero evidence that he’s a math genius. Instead some basic research suggested he’s a typical crackpot pseudo-scientist very interested in the aesthetics of math, perhaps with some synesthesia. He’s accomplished nothing in the field or even been evaluated with a difficult math test as far as I can tell. The fact that it’s been reported without question that he’s a genius by so many major media organizations is rather sad. He gives talks and writes with zero technical details but full of flowery philosophical statements dressed up with the barest shreds of math language.
He has a website where he sells rudimentary line art with grandiose titles and captions such as:
“This is how I see my hand. Quantum vibrations, vibrating through all possible paths and I see the one that is relative to me. Look at your own hand and see the fractal lines created by the cells as the mulitply. See how the groves form a specific print. That pattern is a fractal pattern. Everything that exists are fractals, even us”
I’m not even a math guy but the scent of bullshit is unbelievably strong. He spends a lot of time taking about classic new age topics like vibrations, fractals, and quantum. I’d be interested to see someone who actually does math read his content and report back.
Yeah, other people already pointed this out. I blame writers who cannot do math here. I know people in the humanities that would happily define a “math genius” anyone capable of correctly calculating an integral.
Anyway, even taking for granted that he’s just a crank who draws some cool triangles, it’s still quite impressive that an head injury could turn a normal guy into a math crank.
I looked into the “math genius” (Jason Padgett) a few months ago and found zero evidence that he’s a math genius. Instead some basic research suggested he’s a typical crackpot pseudo-scientist very interested in the aesthetics of math, perhaps with some synesthesia. He’s accomplished nothing in the field or even been evaluated with a difficult math test as far as I can tell. The fact that it’s been reported without question that he’s a genius by so many major media organizations is rather sad. He gives talks and writes with zero technical details but full of flowery philosophical statements dressed up with the barest shreds of math language.
He has a website where he sells rudimentary line art with grandiose titles and captions such as:
“This is how I see my hand. Quantum vibrations, vibrating through all possible paths and I see the one that is relative to me. Look at your own hand and see the fractal lines created by the cells as the mulitply. See how the groves form a specific print. That pattern is a fractal pattern. Everything that exists are fractals, even us”
I’m not even a math guy but the scent of bullshit is unbelievably strong. He spends a lot of time taking about classic new age topics like vibrations, fractals, and quantum. I’d be interested to see someone who actually does math read his content and report back.
Yeah, other people already pointed this out. I blame writers who cannot do math here. I know people in the humanities that would happily define a “math genius” anyone capable of correctly calculating an integral.
Anyway, even taking for granted that he’s just a crank who draws some cool triangles, it’s still quite impressive that an head injury could turn a normal guy into a math crank.