Book description
This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and
mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are
beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using
anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique
insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions and equations
underpin all our lives.
Inspired by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's sixth finger
or his mother's unpredictable behaviour, Tammet explores questions
such as why time seems to speed up as we age, whether there is such a
thing as an average person and how we can make sense of those we love.
Thinking in Numbers will change the way you think about maths
and fire your imagination to see the world with fresh eyes.
'Packed with his clear summaries of fascinating experiments . . .
Recent debate has bumped up this book from delightful to vital'
Owner of 'the most remarkable mind on the planet,' (according to
the US's Entertainment Weekly), a 2007 poll of 4,000 Britons
named Daniel Tammet as one of the world's '100 living geniuses'.
He has captivated readers and won worldwide critical acclaim with the
New York Times bestselling memoir, BORN ON A BLUE DAY and its vivid
depiction of a life with high-functioning autistic savant syndrome,
which has sold over half a million copies worldwide, and been
translated into 18 languages. Tammet's second book, EMBRACING THE WIDE
SKY, was also an international bestsller.
Tammet's exceptional abilities in mathematics and linguistics are
combined with a unique capacity to communicate what it's like to be a
savant. His idiosyncratic world view gives us new perspectives on the
universal questions of what it is to be human and how we make meaning
in our lives. Tammet was born in London in 1979, the eldest of nine
children. He lives in Paris.
