Wired: The Key to Genius — an article on an austistic savant who, at 12, has released his fifth album of jazz compositions.

As we finish lunch, Matt asks me in his distinctively high-pitched voice, “Did you know that numbers can be friendly and amicable?” He means friendly and amicable in the math-geek sense - numbers that can be factored into one another - but I also felt he was using those words in their ordinary sense. Matt is intimate with numbers. They come to him in dreams and inspire him to write songs. One of his tunes on the album Groovin’ on Mount Everest is called “Forty-Seven” - a number he feels is “lonely” because when he asks people to think up a random number, no one ever chooses it.

Interesting stuff about how the mind works, rewires, and heals itself.