Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet is a British author, essayist and autistic savant with extraordinary mathematical and linguistic abilities. He holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 decimal places and speaks eleven languages, including Icelandic, which he learned in a week for a documentary challenge. He has synaesthesia, experiencing numbers as colours, shapes and textures. Born on a Blue Day is his memoir, describing what it's like to live with Asperger's syndrome and savant abilities, seeing the world through a mind that processes information in fundamentally different ways. The book offers a rare and deeply personal window into the experience of neurodivergence, told with warmth, clarity and wonder at the extraordinary capabilities of the human brain. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Born on a Blue Day offers fascinating listening and reading for anyone interested in the human mind, neurodiversity and the remarkable spectrum of ways in which people experience and understand the world.