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Daniel Paul Tammet is a British man who is gifted with extraordinary abilities in mathematical computation , memory, and language learning . He was born with congenital epilepsy. Daniel Tammet FRSA (born 31 January 1979) is an English writer, essayist and autistic savant. His best-selling 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association.
Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was described as one of France's best-selling books of 2009 by L' Express magazine in its March 2010 edition. Thinking in Numbers, Tammet's third book, was published by Hodder in the UK on 16 August 2012, and by Little, Brown in the United States and Canada on 30 July 2013. Tammet's books have been published in 20 languages. He was Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2012.
He says, each number up to 10,000 each-each have a' unique shape and feel unique, so that he can 'feel' whether these figures include numbers or the main mix. For example, he said that the figure of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful.
Tammet holds the record as a 'process' and calculate the value of Pi to the number 22.514 in just five hours. He also speaks a variety of languages , including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Wales, and Esperanto. He particularly likes Estonian, because it is rich in vowels.
Tammet is capable of learning new languages very quickly. To prove it, Tammet was challenged Channel Five (a TV channel) to learn Icelandic in one week. 7 days later he appeared on Icelandic television conversing in Icelandic. Until-until, Tammet language instructor saying it was man who does not like humans.
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