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the life and work of dirk watkins

April 17, 2007
by Dirk Watkins
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Pi Art by an Autistic Savant

Danial Tammet can calculate huge sums in his head in seconds and instantaneously recognise prime numbers, but he finds emotions difficult to understand and has trouble telling left from right. In March 2004, Daniel set a European record when he recited the famous mathematical constant Pi from memory to 22,514 decimal places in a time of 5 hours. Continue reading