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Daniel Tammet is a writer, linguist, and educator. A 2007 poll of 4,000 Britons named him as one of the world's "100 living geniuses." His last book, the New York Times bestseller Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, has been translated into 18 languages. He lives in Avignon, France.

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The Sydney News, April 1, 2013
..."Look Me in the Eye" (2007), by John Elder Robison, and "Born on a Blue Day" (2006), by Daniel Tammet, are both memoirs that chronicle the painful chasm of misunderstanding that separates people with Asperger's from the world around them...
New York Times, March 31, 2013
...confirmed the diagnosis. Look Me in the Eye (2007), by , and Born on a Blue Day (2006), by Daniel Tammet, are both memoirs that chronicle the painful chasm of misunderstanding that separates people with Aspergers from the world around them. Both accounts...
Thrillist, March 20, 2013
...So I'm looking for people who've accelerated the most in the shortest amount of time. Like Daniel Tammet who learned to speak Icelandic well enough in seven days to go on TV and be interviewed. There's a method to that madness-- just because people are...
New Straits Times, March 8, 2013
...Which book moved you? Born On A Blue Day: Inside The Extraordinary Mind Of An Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet (Free Press, Simon and Schuster New York, 2007). Why? The author tells about his childhood and life with Asperger’s syndrome in a...
Guardian.co.uk, February 22, 2013
...Alain de Botton, James Ladyman and Daniel Tammet are among the authors this week as readers turn to the great questions of existence It has been a studious and reflective week, with readers tackling serious non-fiction exploring...
The Independent, February 9, 2013
...This is a book about the unsuspected influence of mathematics on our lives, laws, language and literature. There are chapters on Shakespeare's use of zero, on the maths of probability, and the likelihood of life elsewhere in the Universe, on all the...
Abu Dhabi National, January 24, 2013
...Thinking in Numbers Daniel Tammet Hodder & Stoughton Why would anyone want to write about maths? Or rather, why would anyone want to read about maths? It takes a person who looks at numbers...
Cambodian Times, January 11, 2013
...Guardian Books podcast: the books of 2013 and Daniel Tammet on maths Claire Armitstead, Sarah Crown and The Bookseller's Benedicte Page bring us the books to look out for in 2013, and mathematician Daniel Tammet discusses the links...
Argentina Star, January 11, 2013
...Guardian Books podcast: the books of 2013 and Daniel Tammet on maths Claire Armitstead, Sarah Crown and The Bookseller's Benedicte Page bring us the books to look out for in 2013, and mathematician Daniel Tammet discusses the links...
One News Page, January 11, 2013
...and a host of others. And is there another EL James on the horizon? We also talk to Daniel Tammet, author of Thinking in Numbers, about the beauty of mathematics, the ways in which it resembles literature and how both disciplines benefit from being...
Guardian.co.uk, January 11, 2013
...and The Bookseller's Benedicte Page bring us the books to look out for in 2013, and mathematician Daniel Tammet discusses the links between numbers and literature...
York Daily Record, December 18, 2012
...Scoot around the Internet and you can find fascinating videos of autistic children and adults doing amazing things. Daniel Tammet from Great Britian can take Pi out to 20,500 digits and, on a friendly dare, learned to speak the Icelandic language in a...
Psychology Today, December 15, 2012
...By Berit Brogaard and Kristian Marlow Savant Daniel Tammet Savants can perform extraordinary cognitive feats much like trained experts, but unlike experts they usually cannot describe what makes them so talented, seemingly relying on intuition rather...
USA Today, December 12, 2012
...I was writing the book, I read books by the famous savant Temple Grandin and by mathematical savant Daniel Tammet, as well as books written for the caregivers of children on the spectrum. I also watched the great documentary Wretches & Jabberers.When I...