Interview with an Autistic Savant
Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant with the incredible distinction of being gifted with numbers and language while remaining social at the same time. He set a record by reciting 22,514 digits of Pi, and learned the Icelandic language in just 7 days.
Read all about it. (The New Scientist)
There is also a documentary about him called “The Boy with the Incredible Brain”
Part 1/5
Part 2/5
Part 3/5
Part 4/5
Part 5/5
Tags: autism, Daniel Tammet, New Scientist, savant
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