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College Dropout Became Mathematical Genius After Mugging
- jonny_eh 14y agoOh man, I really want to buy this guy's art and put it up in my living room. Edit: Wow, thanks Google! http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jason-padgett.html http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jason-padgett.html
- trhtrsh 14y agoYeah, read the author description on that page, with the gobbledygook about fractals and pi and E=mc^2. He's not a mathematical genius; he's an artist who draws pretty spirographs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph
- jrkelly 14y agoYep, seems like he is just a bad version of the logo turtle.
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- RollAHardSix 14y agoIf I were but so lucky. It sounds like he has plans to help the world with his gift too so good on him.
- darien 14y agoSomebody should contact this guy and ask him to open a kickstarter page to raise cash for a coffee table book which includes his art with detailed explanations of the math behind it. Would totally buy it.
- coryl 14y agoMakes you wonder how much potential there is in all of us that just isn't "activated".
- tel 14y agoMalarky. Quite pretty, but the story behind it is malarky.
- driverdan 14y agoI'm very skeptical of this. Sure the guy draws very nice fractals but have any of his claims been investigated by mathematicians? How exactly are his drawings representations of math? How is his pi drawing a representation of pi?
- michaelcampbell 14y ago> http://fineartamerica.com/featured/towards-pi-3141552779-hand-drawn-jason-padgett.html http://fineartamerica.com/featured/towards-pi-3141552779-han... Uhhmm... 3.14155...? Better than the apocryphal story of pi === 3, I guess, but still. That said, it IS entitled "TOWARDS Pi", I guess. I fail to see how the picture represents the decimal shown - can someone explain?
- rsanchez1 14y agoI wonder why we never hear stories about the college dropout who became a mathematical genius after independent study.