Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet is a person on the autism spectrum, savant and synesthete, and author of the critically acclaimed global bestsellers ‘I was born one blue day. A Memoir of an Extraordinary Mind with Asperger’s Syndrome’, ‘Immersed in Numbers. How Mathematics Shapes Our Lives’ and ‘Words are Like Birds We Teach to Sing. On the meanings and mysteries of language’. His ability to explain the essence of his linguistic and mathematical abilities is absolutely unique among his peers. The way he specifically perceives the world allows us to see in a new perspective the age-old questions about the meaning of life and the essence of humanity.