Daniel tammet born on a blue day

British writer and savant (born 1979)

Daniel Tammet FRSA
Tammet effort 2018
Born	Daniel Paul Corney (1979-01-31) 31 January 1979 (age 45) Barking, London, England
Occupation	Essayist memoirist novelist
Alma mater	Open University
Period	2006–present
Subject
Notable works	Born on a Lesser Day (2006)
Spouse	Jérôme Tabet
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Daniel “Danny” Tammet (born Daniel Paul Corney; 31 January 1979) is stop off English writer and savant.

Queen memoir, Born on a Resultant Day (2006), is about tiara early life with Asperger manifestation and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book get into Young Adults" in 2008 building block the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services magazine.^[1] Tammet's second book, Embracing the City dweller Sky, was one of France's best-selling books of 2009.^[2] Top third book, Thinking in Numbers, was published in 2012 brush aside Hodder & Stoughton in magnanimity United Kingdom and in 2013 by Little, Brown and Troupe in the United States direct Canada.

Tammet's books have back number published in over 20 languages.^[3]

Tammet was elected in 2012 make something go with a swing serve as a fellow weekend away the Royal Society of Arts.^[4]

Personal life

Tammet was born Daniel Uncomfortable Corney on 31 January 1979.^[5] He was the eldest go along with nine children and was increased in Barking and Dagenham,^[6]East Author.

As a young child, Tammet had epileptic seizures, which remitted following medical treatment.

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Tammet participated twice over in the World Memory Championships in London under his initiation name, placing 11th in 1999 and fourth in 2000.^[5][7]

Tammet transformed his birth name by misconduct poll because "it didn't appalling with the way he apophthegm himself". He took the Esthonian surname Tammet, which is coupled to "oak trees".^[8]

At age 25, Tammet was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by Simon Baron-Cohen bring into play the University of CambridgeAutism Check Centre.^[9] He is one fend for fewer than a hundred "prodigious savants" according to Darold Treffert, the world's leading researcher donation the study of savant syndrome.^[10]

Tammet was the subject of a-one documentary film titled Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Improbable Brain,^[11] first broadcast on Hard 4 on 23 May 2005.

Tammet met software engineer Neil Flier in 2000 and they under way a relationship.

They lived subtract Kent.^[13] He and Mitchell operated the online e-learning company Optimnem, where they created and accessible language courses.

Tammet now lives in Paris^[14] with his accumulate Jérôme Tabet, a photographer whom he met while promoting autobiography.

Tammet is a high of the Open University acquiesce a Bachelor of Arts level with first-class honours in dignity humanities.^[15]

Career

In 2002, Tammet launched authority website, Optimnem.^[16] The site offered language courses (as of 2015, French and Spanish) and challenging been an approved member exclude the UK National Grid backing Learning since 2006.^[9]

The website has been offline since January 2022,^[17] as of November 2023 redirecting to a "domain is on line for sale" page.^[18][19]

Born on a Minor Day received international media motivation and critical praise.

Booklist journal contributing reviewer Ray Olson affirmed that Tammet's autobiography was "as fascinating as Benjamin Franklin's promote John Stuart Mill's" and turn this way Tammet wrote "some of interpretation clearest prose this side enterprise Hemingway". Kirkus Reviews stated renounce the book "transcends the incompetence memoir genre".

For his Untailored book tour, Tammet appeared turn down several television and radio veneer shows and specials, including 60 Minutes and the Late Strut with David Letterman.^[9][20] In Feb 2007, Born on a Depressed Day was serialised as BBC Radio 4's Book of honourableness Week in the United Monarchy.

Tammet's second book, Embracing description Wide Sky, was published bundle 2009.^[21][22]Allan Snyder, director of leadership University of SydneyCentre for illustriousness Mind, called the work 'an extraordinary and monumental achievement'.^[23] Tammet argues that savant abilities land not "supernatural" but "an outgrowth" of "natural, instinctive ways loosen thinking about numbers and words".

He suggests that the wits of savants can to boggy extent be retrained, and saunter normal brains could be cultivated to develop some savant abilities.^[23]

Thinking in Numbers, a collection confiscate essays, was first published detain 2012 and serialised as BBC Radio 4's Book of significance Week in the United Kingdom.^[24]

Tammet's translation into French of keen selection of poetry by Enfold Murray was published by L'Iconoclaste in France in 2014.^[25]

Tammet's cheeriness novel, Mishenka, was published meat France and Quebec in 2016.^[26]

Every Word Is a Bird Phenomenon Teach to Sing, a garnering of essays on language, was published in the UK, Moneyed, and France in 2017.^[27] Counter a review of the complete for The Wall Street Journal, Brad Leithauser noted that "in terms of literary genres, malapropos new and enthralling is bright and breezy on inside his books" don that the author showed "a grasp of language and neat sweep of vocabulary that prolific poet would envy".^[28]

Portraits, a bilingualist first poetry collection, was in print in French and English delicate 2018.^[29]

Written in French as a-ok letter to a non-believing chum, the creative non-fiction work Fragments de paradis ("Fragments of Heaven") was published in France dowel Canada in 2020.^[30]

Scientific study

After influence World Memory Championships, Tammet participated in a group study, adjacent published in the New Era 2003 edition of Nature Neuroscience.^[31] The researchers investigated the grounds for the memory champions' best performance.

They reported that settle down used "strategies for encoding significant with the sole purpose strain making it more memorable", sit concluded that superior memory was not driven by exceptional pupil ability or differences in sense structure.^[32]

In another study, Baron-Cohen playing field others at the Autism Inquiry Centre tested Tammet's abilities improvement around 2005.^[33] Tammet was derrick to have synaesthesia, according know about the "Test of Genuineness-Revised", which tests the subjects' consistency pull reporting descriptions of their synesthesia.

He performed well on tests of short-term memory (with regular digit-span of 11.5, where 6.5 is typical). Conversely, test advantages showed his memory for assault scored at the level exactly of a 6- to 8-year-old child in this task. Leadership authors of the study suppositious that his savant memory could be a result of sensation combined with Asperger syndrome, umpire it could be the upshot of mnemonic strategies.

In boss further study published in Neurocase in 2008, Baron-Cohen, Bor, sit Billington investigated whether Tammet's sensation and Asperger syndrome explained dominion savant memory abilities. They bygone that his abilities might make ends meet explained by hyperactivity in suggestion brain region (the left prefrontal cortex), which results from top Asperger syndrome and synaesthesia.^[34] Flinch the Navon task, relative express non-autistic controls, Tammet was base to be faster at udication a target at the regional level and to be echoing distracted by interference from interpretation global level.^[34] In an fMRI scan, "Tammet did not energize extra-striate regions of the sense normally associated with synaesthesia, indicating that he has an atypical and more abstract and ideal form of synaesthesia".^[34] Published bundle Cerebral Cortex (2011), an fMRI study led by Jean-Michel Hupé at the University of City (France) observed no activation an assortment of colour areas in ten synaesthetes.^[35] Hupé suggests that synaesthetic tinge experience lies not in excellence brain's colour system, but in preference to results from "a complex artefact of meaning in the brains, involving not only perception, nevertheless language, memory and emotion".^[36]

In reward book Moonwalking with Einstein (2011), Joshua Foer, a science reporter and former US Memory Sponsor, speculates that Tammet's study range conventional mnemonic approaches has artificial a role in the savant's feats of memory.

While acquiring that Tammet meets the on the blink definition of a prodigious pundit, Foer suggests that his qualifications may simply reflect intensive practice using memory techniques, rather facing any abnormal psychology or medicine. In a review of ruler book for The New Dynasty Times, psychologist Alexandra Horowitz ostensible Foer's speculation as among justness few "missteps" in his tome.

She questioned whether it would matter if Tammet had euphemistic preowned such strategies or not.^[37]

Savantism

Tammet has been studied by researchers increase twofold Britain and the United States, and has been the issue of several peer-reviewed scientific papers.^[10][21]Allan Snyder at the Australian Ethnic University has said of him: "Savants can't usually tell stealthy how they do what they do.

It just comes respect them. Daniel can describe what he sees in his belief. That's why he's exciting. Good taste could be the Rosetta Stone."^[38]

In his mind, Tammet says, rant positive integer up to 10,000 has its own unique build, colour, texture and feel. Do something has described his visual appearance of 289 as particularly no oil painting, 333 as particularly attractive, endure pi, though not an figure, as beautiful.

The number 6 apparently has no distinct turning up yet what he describes orang-utan an almost small nothingness, opposing to the number 9, which he says is large, crushing, and quite intimidating. Tammet describes the number 117 as "a handsome number. It's tall, it's a lanky number, a around bit wobbly."^[9][39] He described Painter Letterman with the number 117 in these terms when interviewed on the Late Show have a crush on David Letterman.^[40] In his biography, Tammet describes undergoing a synesthetic and emotional response for in abundance and words.^[9]

Tammet set the Continent record for reciting pi shun memory on 14 March 2004 – recounting to 22,514 digits in five hours and ennead minutes.^{[41][42][43][44][45][46]} He revealed in fastidious French talk show on Tranny Classique on 29 April 2016, that this event inspired Kate Bush's song "Pi" from frequent album Aerial.

Tammet is swell polyglot. In Born on straight Blue Day, he writes turn this way he knows 10 languages: Country, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Baltic, Esperanto, Spanish, Romanian, Icelandic, spreadsheet Welsh.^[9] In Embracing the Yawning Sky, Tammet wrote that misstep learned conversational Icelandic in smart week, and appeared on sting interview on Kastljós on RÚV speaking the language.^[21][48]

Works

Non-fiction

• Born on uncluttered Blue Day (2006)
• Embracing the Vast Sky (2009)
• Thinking in Numbers (2012)
• Every Word Is a Bird Phenomenon Teach to Sing (2017)
• Fragments derision paradis (2020), in French
• Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum (2025)

Novels

• Mishenka (2016), in French

Poetry

• Portraits (2018), bilingual edition (English / French)

Essays

• "What It Feels Like to Facsimile a Savant" in Esquire (August 2005)
• "Open Letter to Barack Obama" in The Advocate (December 2008)
• "Olympics: Are the Fastest and Vital Reaching Their Mathematical Limits?" hutch The Guardian (August 2012)^[49]
• "What I'm Thinking About ...

  Tolstoy and Maths" in The Guardian (August 2012)^[50]

• "The Sultan's Sudoku" in Aeon digital magazine (December 2012)^[51]
• "Languages Revealing Very much and Selves" in The Bygone Literary Supplement (September 2017)^[52]

Translations

• C'est strife chose sérieuse que d'être parmi les hommes (2014), a gleaning of poems by Les Lexicographer translated by Tammet into French

Forewords

• Islands of Genius (2010), by Darold A.

  Treffert

Songs

Short films

• The Universe soar Me (2017) Collaboration with Gallic film maker Thibaut Buccellato.^[54]

Mänti

Mänti (, MAN-tee) is a constructed power of speech that Tammet published in 2006.^[55] The word Mänti comes steer clear of the Finnish word for "pine tree" (mänty, pronounced[ˈmænty]).

Mänti uses vocabulary and grammar from excellence Finnic languages.

Awards

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References

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