Daniel Tammet

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Thinking in Numbers

How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

Beschreibung

Mathematical savant and bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY, this is Tammet's engaging and personal exploration of what numbers can teach us about our lives and minds.

Autor

Daniel Tammet is the critically acclaimed author of the worldwide bestselling memoir, BORN ON A BLUE DAY, and the international bestseller EMBRACING THE WIDE SKY. Tammet's exceptional abilities in mathematics and linguistics are combined with a unique capacity to communicate what it is like to be a savant. His idiosyncratic world view gives us new perspectives on the universal questions of what it is to be human and how we make meaning in our lives. Tammet was born in London in 1979, the eldest of nine children. He lives in Paris.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / Hodder Paperbacks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9781444737448
• ISBN-10: 1444737449
• Artikelnr.: 36412107

Rezensionen

Thinking in Numbers is unprecedented: a pitch-perfect duet between mathematics and literature ... Mathematics, Tammet says, is illimitable. It is a language through which the human imagination expresses itself. Presumably this means mathematics has, or deserves, a literature. In Tammet, it already has a laureate. New Scientist