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I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

~Daniel Tammet

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There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Always Apartment Being City Crowds Difficult Drop Faces Find Home Life Like Live Looks Lot My Life Over Quiet Remembering Respects Routines Simple Simple Life Some Someone Still Things Time Town Travel Very Whole Write I Can I Write

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I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating on what I can do, I think I can contribute to society. And that gives me the desire to keep pushing, to see what I'm capable of. The thing to do is not to stop.

~Daniel Tammet

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I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

~Daniel Tammet

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How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.

~Daniel Tammet

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Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

~Daniel Tammet

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Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Belong Culture Every Everyone Just Language Literature Maths Numbers Universal Universal Language

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When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

~Daniel Tammet

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My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.

~Daniel Tammet

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Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Complex Deal Discovering Falling Falling In Love Fiction How Love Me People Reading Relationships Taught Those Understand

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 31st, 1979

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