Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet is the critically acclaimed author of the worldwide bestselling memoir, Born on a Blue Day, and the international bestseller Embracing the Wide Sky. Tammet's exceptional abilities in mathematics and linguistics are combined with a unique capacity to communicate what it is 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.