Daniel Tammet

Author and Savant

Diagnosed with with autism and synaesthesia, Daniel battled to learn many of the social skills others take for granted, like the ability to look someone in the eye or read social cues, but he speaks a dozen languages and calculates extraordinary sums. Considering how his neurodiversity has influenced his life, Daniel explains: ?If you're able to look at the world in a different way, you will find solutions and opportunities you would otherwise miss.?

Speaking Topics

Innovation
Resilience

Daniel failed at school. He's now a bestselling author, he speaks a dozen languages and he can visualise complex sums using just shapes and colours. When you hear him explain how he transfers these skills, you begin to realise everything can be seen through a different lens. Audiences come away inspired - thinking about ways to embrace change instead of fearing it.
JLA Agent - Dennis Perry

Biography

Daniel Tammet is an author and high-functioning autistic savant - described by the scientists as 'the Rosetta Stone of autism.' He speaks a dozen languages and can calculate enormous sums in his head in seconds by visualising the numbers as multi-coloured mental shapes.

Daniel famously holds the British and European record for reciting mathematics' most famous number, the constant Pi (3.14...) to 22,514 decimal places. He was the subject of the award-winning documentary, Brainman: The Boy With The Incredible Brain, and inspired the Kate Bush song, Pi. His memoir, Born On A Blue Day, has become a worldwide bestseller.

As well as Born On A Blue Day, Daniel has written Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind in which he considers what the human mind is capable of and the self-imposed limits that can be redrawn. His Thinking in Numbers is an exploration of the power of maths, not as a dry, analytic subject, but as a creative, expressive language which connects Shakespeare, chess, time and naturally occurring patterns such as snowflakes. Nine Minds - Inner Lives on the Spectrum explores the lives and achievement of nine incredible autistic men and women including a surgeon, a film star, and a detective.

In speeches, Daniel talks about his experiences living with autism, what it’s taught him about people and the world, how he learnt Icelandic in a week, and his amazing gift with numbers and mathematics. He regularly appears in the media, is a subject of study in literature and psychology departments around the world, and has also founded a website providing online language courses.

“An inspiring story told in an utterly mesmerising style – I could have listened all day”

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