Daniel Tammet
Sign in to saveBritish writer, mathematician, essayist and autistic savant
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1979-01-31
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Je Suis Ne un Jour Bleu
- Born on a Blue Day (Digital Download)
- Nine Minds
- Fragments de paradis (French Edition)
- La conquista del cerebro
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Essex, England, UK
Known for
- On n'est pas couché — Self - Guest2006
- Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain — Himself2005
- Brainman2005
- Tout le monde en parle — Self2004
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 375
- Total plays
- 5,318
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,963x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,696x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,720x
- Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
· 1979 · cited 39,548x
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,688x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Daniel Paul Corney , ( 1979-01-31 ) 31 January 1979 (age 47) , Barking , London , England
- Occupation
- Essayist memoirist novelist
- Alma mater
- Open University
- Period
- 2006–present
- Subject
- Memoir essays
- Notable works
- Born on a Blue Day (2006)
- Spouse
- Jérôme Tabet
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 31 January 1979
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- pedagogue
- Educated at
- The Open University
- Languages spoken
- Welsh
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
Article
Daniel Paul Tammet (born Daniel Paul Corney; 31 January 1979) is an English writer and savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services magazine. Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France's best-selling books of 2009. His third book, Thinking in Numbers, was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada. Tammet's books have been published in over 20 languages.
Tammet was elected in 2012 to serve as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.