Daniel Tammet’s mind does not work like most. He’s an autistic savant. One of just fifty or a hundred of his rare kind in the world. He can recite pi out to 22,000 digits, from memory. And, maybe most ...

Although their unusual abilities compel considerable attention, there are fewer than 100 known prodigious savants living at the present time. Daniel Tammet (http ...

Jan. 15, 2007— -- Born with a rare condition called Savant Syndrome, Daniel Tammet sees the world like few other people. To Tammet, numbers have shapes, emotions have colors, and math is as easy ...

Daniel Tammet can recite math constant Pi from memory to 22,514 decimal places. May 28, 2010— -- On the outside, 31-year-old Daniel Tammet is an unremarkable young man. But behind Tammet's ...

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Thinking in Numbers is a strange, hit-and-miss little book, a collection of essays about numbers and maths, told through the eyes of someone for whom the whole world speaks in arithmetic. The author, ...

As a very young boy, Daniel Tammet suffered severe epileptic seizures that seriously damaged parts of his developing brain. Doctors diagnosed him as autistic, and he retreated into a world of his own.

Last night I was eating dinner with my parents back in my hometown in Philadelphia. I was telling them about my interview with Daniel Tammet, and how I was working on a post about my reflections on ...

"Mathematics isn't simply about counting - it's about recounting stories". This is how Daniel Tammet, best-selling British author, mathematician and autistic savant sees numbers. Not as simple ...

"Three point one four one five nine …" In 2004, 25-year-old Daniel Tammet sat down at a table at a museum in Oxford, England, surrounded by cameras and a rapt audience, sipped some water, and began ...

Daniel Tammet is a most extraordinary man. He sees the world very differently than most people. For him, words and numbers and pictures and emotions all intermingle in his mind. Tammet explains as a ...

Pi is a number that has gripped the imagination of many a mathematician, professional and amateur, throughout history. It’s the number that is always generated when the circumference of a circle is ...