Extraordinary People - The Boy With The Incredible Brain
Monday, June 13, 2011
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To describe a program as the most amazing thing I have ever seen, is quite a bold statement. But having watched the thing again, twice in the last twenty four hours, I still have no reason to contradict my original appraisal.
It was some years ago that I first came across 'Brainman' or to give it its UK title, 'The Boy With The Incredible Brain,' and was quite delighted when recently I came across a downloadable version. So having watched the thing yesterday evening, I was prompted to see if it was available on Youtube, sure enough it was, in four parts and about fifty minutes in total.
Daniel Tammet Wiki displayed some mind boggling feats of mental arithmetic, giving answers to questions asked to thirty two decimal places, the limit of the verifying computer, but stated that one hundred decimal places would be well within his extraordinary capabilities. On a further ''test'' he gave correctly, by rote, the value of Pi to 22,500 decimal places.
What made these achievements all the more amazing, is that Daniel Tammet doesn't see numbers as you or I might, but rather as pictures, shapes, patterns and textures.
The blurb that accompanied the clips below.
It was some years ago that I first came across 'Brainman' or to give it its UK title, 'The Boy With The Incredible Brain,' and was quite delighted when recently I came across a downloadable version. So having watched the thing yesterday evening, I was prompted to see if it was available on Youtube, sure enough it was, in four parts and about fifty minutes in total.
Daniel Tammet Wiki displayed some mind boggling feats of mental arithmetic, giving answers to questions asked to thirty two decimal places, the limit of the verifying computer, but stated that one hundred decimal places would be well within his extraordinary capabilities. On a further ''test'' he gave correctly, by rote, the value of Pi to 22,500 decimal places.
What made these achievements all the more amazing, is that Daniel Tammet doesn't see numbers as you or I might, but rather as pictures, shapes, patterns and textures.
The blurb that accompanied the clips below.
Many people learnt of Daniel for the first time through the award-winning documentary 'Brainman' (titled 'The Boy With The Incredible Brain' in the UK). Filmed in 2004, it shows Daniel reciting the famous mathematical constant Pi from memory to 22,514 digits -- a European record -- before travelling to the United States to be studied by brain scientists in California, beat the house at blackjack in Las Vegas and meet the original 'Rain Man' Kim Peek in Salt Lake City. Daniel is also given the challenge to learn a new language -- Icelandic -- from scratch in just seven days, before an interview in Reykjavik entirely in the home language.
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