Jason Padgett was a normal futon salesman. But following a traumatic brain injury, he suddenly acquired the brain power of a ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Listen 7:17 In the mid-1980s, Simon ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Man Who Knew Infinity (out Friday, April ...

“Just like Mozart could hear a symphony in his head, you dance with numbers up to infinity,” says Professor Hardy (Jeremy Irons), admiringly, to his protégé Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...