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 ...

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 ...

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 fourth power in his head and ...

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 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 ...

British writer, essayist and autistic savant Daniel Tammet, pictured today, holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes on March 14, 2004.

Although their unusual abilities compel considerable attention, there are fewer than 100 known prodigious savants living at the present time. Daniel Tammet (http ...

When Daniel Tammet thinks about numbers, each one has a distinct personality. Thirty-seven is lumpy, for example; four is shy. He has a rare form of autism that gives him astonishing mental powers, ...

Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant, and he has written a book about math. Math phobics need not fear — this is no Rain Man recitation of sheer facts. Against all odds, Tammet has crafted a quirky, ...

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.