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 ...

This unique first-person account offers a window into the mind of a high-functioning, 27-year-old British autistic savant with Asperger's syndrome. Tammet's ability to think abstractly, deviate from ...

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

Daniel Tammet is a mathematical and linguistic genius. He has memorized Pi to more than 22,500 digits, and he speaks 11 languages – one of which he learned in a week for a TV special. He can multiply ...

June 11, 2005 — -- Daniel Tammet of England can verbally reel off the number pi to 22,500 decimal places in just over five hours -- though he admitted after a recent demostration that it made him ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Tammet speaks 11 languages and set the European record for reciting pi from memory in 2004 - Magali Delporte “People talk ...

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.

Imagine if, when looking at a piece of art, you saw a numerical code. Or a rainbow when reading a book. For Daniel Tammet, life has always been more than black and white - and he’s using his unique ...

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 ...