Daniel Tammet has a remarkable mind, but getting along with other people hasn't always been easy. Daniel has synesthesia and amazing abilities of mental computation. He can speak 10 languages - he ...

Tammet speaks 11 languages including Icelandic which he learned in a week. Unlike the caricatured “Rain Man”, Tammet now lives a full, adventurous and emotionally connected life: he’s been happily ...

In 2004, television producers for a talk show in Reykjavik dared Daniel Tammet to learn conversational Icelandic in just one week. Tammet, who knows 12 languages, and who has, since childhood, been ...

A FEW REMARKABLE THINGS ABOUT Daniel Tammet: he can multiply 277 by 539 in his head; he can tell you what day of the week it was on 17 October 1959; he can learn a foreign language and be fluent in it ...

Autistic savant Daniel Tammet shot to fame when he set a European record for the number of digits of pi he recited from memory (22,514). For afters, he learned Icelandic in a week. But unlike many ...