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When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Achieved Cambridge Captured Diagnosed European Finally He Imagination Me Professor Record Simon Year

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I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Adult Also Being Book Changed Confidence Enormous First Found Full-Time Given Incredibly Large Life Living Loyal Lucky Me My Life Paris Readership Very Writer

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Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: About Aesthetic Attempt Beauty Draw Example Experiences Explaining Feel First For Example Impress Include Logic Number Numbers Our Prime Processes Rather Reader Reason Shapes Than Then Thinking Thought I Feel

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My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Act Actions Awareness Beauty Even Get Learning Love Model Mother Not Perfect Part Perfect Persist Predicting She Someone To Love Wrong

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I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Able Because Coloured Complex Five Hours Mind Minutes Nine Numbers Points Shapes Study Unusual Way Weeks

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I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Life Lottery More My Life Never Played Specifically Stupidity Tax Think Voltaire Will I Think

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Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Absence Almost Black Black Hole Cold Dark Depressed Experience Hardest Help Hole Imagine Like Me Might Myself Number Six Smallest Someone Something Tells

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There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Ability Brought Different Disappointing Estimated Feel Fewer Grown Having Isolation Make Me One Thing Sense Them Thing Together United Up Us Were Worldwide Would

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There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Always Average Average Person Expectations Guidelines People Person Really Surprise Thing Unknown

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Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: American Champion Chess Great Great American Life Said Say Would

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 31st, 1979

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