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Daniel Tammet

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 website company, Optimnem, has provided foreign language instruction to thousands around the globe and 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, in the south of France.

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Brain, Art and Poetry - Part III: Literature and Poetry
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...reality these synesthetes experience a three dimensional location of numbers. One of the renowned number-form synesthetes is called Daniel Tammet. He can see numbers literally as landscapes, and in those landscapes he discovers true mathematical...
2009 (and December) in Review
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...It's been a good year for books. I read far more than I've ever read in a single year - before 2009, I thought 100 books in a year was nearly impossible - and a great deal of them were really good. I did get a little tired out reading at that pace, and I...
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I Have Things..., December 31, 2009
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Born on a Blue Day
If You Write It, May 26, 2009
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