Born on a blue day is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today-guided by its owner himself. Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently in a week. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers.
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