1. Daniel Tammet was born on Daniel Paul Corney; 31 January 1979 and is an English writer and savant.
22 Facts About Daniel Tammet
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Daniel Tammet's memoir, Born on a Blue Day, is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services magazine.
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Daniel Tammet was elected in 2012 to serve as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Daniel Tammet was the eldest of nine children and was raised in Barking and Dagenham, East London.
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Daniel Tammet participated twice in the World Memory Championships in London under his birth name, placing 11th in 1999 and fourth in 2000.
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Daniel Tammet changed his birth name by deed poll because "it didn't fit with the way he saw himself".
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Daniel Tammet took the Estonian surname Tammet, which is related to "oak trees".
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At age 25, Daniel Tammet was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by Simon Baron-Cohen of the University of Cambridge Autism Research Centre.
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Daniel Tammet is one of fewer than a hundred "prodigious savants" according to Darold Treffert, the world's leading researcher in the study of savant syndrome.
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Daniel Tammet was the subject of a documentary film titled Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 May 2005.
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Daniel Tammet met software engineer Neil Mitchell in 2000 and they started a relationship.
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Daniel Tammet is a graduate of the Open University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in the humanities.
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Booklist magazine contributing reviewer Ray Olson stated that Daniel Tammet's autobiography was "as fascinating as Benjamin Franklin's and John Stuart Mill's" and that Daniel Tammet wrote "some of the clearest prose this side of Hemingway".
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Daniel Tammet suggests that the brains of savants can to some extent be retrained, and that normal brains could be taught to develop some savant abilities.
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Daniel Tammet was found to have synaesthesia, according to the "Test of Genuineness-Revised", which tests the subjects' consistency in reporting descriptions of their synaesthesia.
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Daniel Tammet performed well on tests of short-term memory.
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Daniel Tammet questioned whether it would matter if Tammet had used such strategies or not.
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Daniel Tammet has been studied by researchers in Britain and the United States, and has been the subject of several peer-reviewed scientific papers.
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Daniel Tammet has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi, though not an integer, as beautiful.
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Daniel Tammet revealed in a French talk show on Radio Classique on 29 April 2016, that this event inspired Kate Bush's song "Pi" from her album Aerial.
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In Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel Tammet wrote that he learned conversational Icelandic in a week, and appeared on an interview on Kastljos on RUV speaking the language.
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Manti is a constructed language that Daniel Tammet published in 2006.