Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: After an assault in 2002, Jason Padgett suffered a brain injury that instilled within him a perviously unknown mathematical genius. Padgett became ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese genius flexed his mathematical prowess by solving a problem that flummoxed a team of mathematicians with Ph.D.s for four ...

Tens of thousands of handwritten pages by one of the 20th century's greatest mathematicians, Alexander Grothendieck, many of which the eccentric genius penned while living as a hermit, were unveiled ...

John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose decades-long descent into severe mental ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When someone suffers a traumatic brain injury, lots of things can go wrong—but rarely, very rarely, ...