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 ...

AUTISTIC savant and author Daniel Tammet proves that mathematics plus creativity equals a bestselling formula DANIEL Tammet really doesn’t want to be known as the “number guy”. It’s a tempting handle ...

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 shares his art and his passion for languages in this glimpse into his beautiful mind. Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia, which means “that his perception of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A celebration of the gifts and talents of autistic people refutes the idea that autism and empathy cannot coexist In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks wrote about two autistic men, ...

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 ...

"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'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.

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, ...