Brainman
July 15, 2006 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
27-year-old Daniel Tammet, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, can learn a new language in a week (he speak ten); has synaesthesia, sees numbers in color, and responds emotionally to them; recited pi to 22,000 places at an epilepsy charity; was given the title “Brainman” in a television documentary film; runs an internet-based teaching business from home, where he lives with his partner of six years, Neil; talks about how, as a child, he would surround himself with books as a kind of “‘numerical comfort blanket.’”
Tammet’s own book, Born on a Blue Day: A memoir of an extraordinary mind is to be published this weekend.
Lucky Numbers, a detailed portrait of Tammet can be read in the July 16th Scotsman.
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