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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daniel Tammet says he wrote “Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum” to fill a gap: what he sees as a dearth of true-life narratives about people who, like him, identify as autistic. “It was not so ...

Although their unusual abilities compel considerable attention, there are fewer than 100 known prodigious savants living at the present time. Daniel Tammet is one of them. Over 30 years, the ...

Memoirist and essayist Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) sheds fresh light on autism in these vivid profiles of nine people with the condition. Some subjects dismantle neurotypical assumptions, like ...

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 ...

Author Daniel Tammet talks about his new book Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, and his amazing facility... A Look at an Autistic Savant's Brilliant Mind When ...

In his new memoir, Daniel Tammet reminds me of Data, the questing android of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” As a multilingual savant who solves stumpers like 82 to the 4th power in his head and who ...

There are numbers all around us. They are in every word we speak or write, and in the passage of time. Everything in our world has a numeric foundation, but most of us don't see those numbers. It's ...

Daniel Tammet’s understanding of language began with numbers. When he saw white flakes falling from the sky, though he pointed out the window and exclaimed “Snow” to his parents, his mind latched onto ...