From mullet to math genius after a concussion

New York Post ^ | April 20, 2014 | Susannah Cahalan

[beaversmom]

This is my **favourite** guy that is like the man in the article...he is an English man named Daniel Tammet

Here he is in a neat clip from a documentary where he learned Icelandic in a week...it’s very touching to me. Especially since he seems like such a sweet man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4lgOiHBZo

And this is a clip of him on the David Letterman show where he explains his “condition” and how it may have been brought on by epileptic seizures and his autism. He also talks about memorizing pi to 22,000+ digits for charity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4lgOiHBZo

[beaversmom]

lol...I didn’t see your post. I just posted about him. Came across him on YouTube a few years ago. Very sweet man with incredible mind.

[beaversmom]

Then about the same time I came across Tammet, I also learned about this guy...he can paint/draw Rome to very precise detail (and other cities) after only a helicopter ride.

Steven Wiltshire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVqRT_kCOLI

[GreenLanternCorps]

You invited them to dinner?

[grania]

At Planck lengths, the resolution breaks down and all you get is straight lines. Or something

I'd go with tiny little segments approaching one point in length. Amazing that those Greek dudes in togas had it all figured out and gave us "pi".

People who see the world in patterns are not all that rare. It's cool that a concussion could charge up those batteries and have a person see the world as it is.