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An Autistic Savant Explains How He Thinks
Danniel Tammet, who knows pi to more than 22,000 digits and learned Icelandic in a week, tells how he connects numbers the way most people connect words, why the number 37 is "lumpy, like porridge," and more generally how his mind works and what the rest of us might learn from it. New Scientist 01/07/09
Danniel Tammet, who knows pi to more than 22,000 digits and learned Icelandic in a week, tells how he connects numbers the way most people connect words, why the number 37 is "lumpy, like porridge," and more generally how his mind works and what the rest of us might learn from it. New Scientist 01/07/09
Posted January 8, 2009 08:01 PM
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