DANIEL TAMMET, ONE OF THE CENTURY’S 100 GENIUSES: HIS LIFE AS AN ASPERGER’S AUTISTIC AUTHOR AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY MEMORY

A big thank you to Daniel Tammet for visiting the LEGEND studio! Daniel is an English writer and poet ranked among the 100 geniuses of our century. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in 2004 at the age of 25, his extraordinary memory has enabled him to speak more than ten languages ​​fluently and to break the record for memorizing the digits of Pi; in 2004, he recited 22,514 of them in five hours and nine minutes. Also a synesthete, he visualizes numbers and letters as colors and emotions. He is here to mark the release of his ninth book: *Des pierres ils ont fait des étoiles*.