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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Daniel Tammet is author of two books, Born on a Blue Day and Embracing the Wide Sky, the latter of which came out in January. He is also a linguist and holds the European record for reciting the first ...

Daniel Tammet's mind works in extraordinary ways. He can calculate huge sums in his head in moments. He came to fame a few years ago when he recited pi to the 22,514th digit without skipping a beat.