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Book of the Week: Daniel Tammet - Thinking in Numbers

Book of the Week: Daniel Tammet - Thinking in Numbers: Episode 1: Counting to Four in Icelandic

Thinking in Numbers

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Episode 1: Counting to Four in Icelandic

Daniel Tammet - Thinking in Numbers

Counting to Four in Icelandic

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Daniel Tammet explores the ways in which different cultures approach and describe numbers.

4 Extra Debut. Daniel Tammet explores the different ways in which cultures across the world approach and describe numbers. Read by James Anthony Pearson.

Written by Daniel Tammet.
Read by James Anthony Pearson.

First of five extracts from Daniel Tammet's new book of essays that celebrates "the science of imagination": mathematics. Today's essay explores the different ways in which cultures across the world approach and describe numbers.

Daniel Tammet is hailed the world over for his extraordinary mind and unique intelligence shaped by high-functioning autistic savant syndrome. He perceives words and numbers as shapes, colours, and emotions, and holds the European record for reciting the mathematical constant Pi to 22,514 decimal places. For Tammet, numbers are beautiful and illuminate our everyday thoughts and lives. 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.

Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

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Extracts from Daniel Tammet's book of essays celebrating the joy of mathematics

Extracts from Daniel Tammet's book of essays celebrating the joy of mathematics. Read by James Anthony Pearson

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