Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet , born with London the January 31st 1979, is a Autiste scientist also reaches of a particular form of Autisme (invited Syndrome To sprinkle) known for its linguistic capacities and of memorizing.
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It memorized: 22514 decimals of pi,
- It can multiply numbers of several figures, or to extract a cubic Racine,
- It can learn all natural Langue. He currently speaks the English, the German , the Spanish , the Esperanto, the Finnois, the French, the Welsh, the Lituanien, the Rumanian and the Icelandic. He assimilated the latter, however considered difficult, in hardly 4 days spent to Reykjavik.
In fact it does not calculate: the solutions appear to him in the form of landscapes, it is synesthète.
It summarizes its philosophy as follows: " The important thing is not to live like the different ones, but among the autres".
It was the subject of documentary televised diffused on M6 in the emission Docs of shock and entitled the man computer (French version of documentary English The Boy With The Amazing Brain ). One sees there his meeting with another autistic scientist equipped with a eidetic Mémoire: Kim Peek, the man who was used as model with film of Barry Levinson, Rain Man (1988) with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.
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