Writer and Teacher
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet is a writer and teacher. Born in London, he now lives in Paris. His autobiography Born on a Blue Day (2007), in which he discusses his childhood with savant autism, became an international bestseller, translated into 20 languages. His second book, Embracing the Immense Sky (2009), ...
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About Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet is a writer and teacher. Born in London, he now lives in Paris. His autobiography Born on a Blue Day (2007), in which he discusses his childhood with savant autism, became an international bestseller, translated into 20 languages. His second book, Embracing the Immense Sky (2009), explores neuroscience and the genius of the human brain. It was listed by the newspaper L’Express among the most read books of 2010 in France.
On March 14, 2004, at the Museum of the History of Oxford, Tammet recited from memory the first 22,514 decimal places of Pi: a European record.
He also demonstrated, in a documentary dedicated entirely to him, his ability to learn a foreign language, such as Icelandic, in a week.
A synesthete, he is able to see words and numbers in shapes, colors, and textures. Neuroscientists from around the world have studied his case to better understand how the human brain works.
Highly publicized, he has appeared on the front page of the newspaper Le Monde and on numerous television shows such as Le Grand Journal on Canal+, Salut Les Terriens, 7 à 8, On n’est pas couché, Le Journal de 13h on France 2, etc. In 2011, he was among the prestigious speakers at the American TED Festival in California.