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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subjects
- Health, Treatments & Medicine
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Type
- Memoirs
- MPN
- Does not apply
- Title
- Born on a Blue Day
- ISBN
- 9781416535072
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
1416535071
ISBN-13
9781416535072
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57012291
Product Key Features
Book Title
Born on a Blue Day : inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders, Personal Memoirs, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-041331
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The probability of someone having both synesthesia and autism is incredibly small -- about 1 in 10,000. Are Daniel's talents the result of his two rare syndromes coming together in one person? His synesthesia gives him a richly textured, multisensory form of memory, and his autism gives him the narrow focus on number and syntactic patterns. The resulting book is a story of a life that is both remarkable and inspiring." -- Simon Baron-Cohen, author ofMindblindnessandThe Essential Difference, "This is a concise book about a very expansive mind. By studying Daniel we may come closer to being able to tap the 'little Rain Man' that exists, perhaps, within us all. Daniel has a heartfelt life mission -- serving as an inspiration for other persons, demonstrating by his own example that such conditions as epilepsy or Asperger's need not always interfere with overall development and potential. Daniel is articulate, soft-spoken, pleasant, polite, gentle, and modest. Those traits shine through in his writing, and his goals mirror most of our own -- becoming closer in our intimate relationships, and becoming closer in our relationships with family and friends as well. Daniel says that numbers are his friends. One comes away from his book with the feeling, through his openness, candor, and reaching out, of having made a new friend as well." -- Darold A. Treffert, MD, author of "Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome", "Something in the way that Mr. Tammet describes the beautiful, aching, hallucinatory process of arriving at his answers illuminates the excitement of all cogitation." -- "The New York Times", "The probability of someone having both synesthesia and autism is incredibly small -- about 1 in 10,000. Are Daniel's talents the result of his two rare syndromes coming together in one person? His synesthesia gives him a richly textured, multisensory form of memory, and his autism gives him the narrow focus on number and syntactic patterns. The resulting book is a story of a life that is both remarkable and inspiring." -- Simon Baron-Cohen, author of "Mindblindness" and "The Essential Difference", "This is a concise book about a very expansive mind. By studying Daniel we may come closer to being able to tap the 'little Rain Man' that exists, perhaps, within us all. Daniel has a heartfelt life mission -- serving as an inspiration for other persons, demonstrating by his own example that such conditions as epilepsy or Asperger's need not always interfere with overall development and potential. Daniel is articulate, soft-spoken, pleasant, polite, gentle, and modest. Those traits shine through in his writing, and his goals mirror most of our own -- becoming closer in our intimate relationships, and becoming closer in our relationships with family and friends as well. Daniel says that numbers are his friends. One comes away from his book with the feeling, through his openness, candor, and reaching out, of having made a new friend as well." -- Darold A. Treffert, MD, author ofExtraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome, "It was fascinating to read how the mind of a mathematical savant is both similar to and different from my visual brain. Daniel thinks in patterns of color, shapes, and relationships between numbers, instead of in photo-realistic images. This book is a must-read for anybody who is interested in how the mind works." -- Temple Grandin, bestselling author of "Animals in Translation" and "Thinking in Pictures", "A riveting account of living with autism...At times, he is quite poetic, especially when he writes about numbers...Transcends the disability-memoir genre." --Kirkus Reviews, "Something in the way that Mr. Tammet describes the beautiful, aching, hallucinatory process of arriving at his answers illuminates the excitement of all cogitation." --The New York Times, "It was fascinating to read how the mind of a mathematical savant is both similar to and different from my visual brain. Daniel thinks in patterns of color, shapes, and relationships between numbers, instead of in photo-realistic images. This book is a must-read for anybody who is interested in how the mind works." -- Temple Grandin, bestselling author ofAnimals in TranslationandThinking in Pictures
Dewey Decimal
362.196/858820092 B
Table Of Content
1: Blue Nines and Red Words2: Early Years3: Struck by Lightning: Epilepsy4: School Days5: Odd One Out6: Adolescence7: Ticket to Kaunas8: Falling in Love9: The Gift of Tongues10: A Very Large Slice of Pi11: Meeting Kim Peek12: Reykjavík, New York, Home
Synopsis
Born on a Blue Day is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today -- guided by its owner himself. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the filmRain Man. Daniel has a compulsive need for order and routine -- he eats the same precise amount of cereal for breakfast every morning and cannot leave the house without counting the number of items of clothing he's wearing. When he gets stressed or is unhappy, he closes his eyes and counts. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the Rain Man: he is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life. He has emerged from the "other side" of autism with the ability to function successfully -- he is even able to explain what is happening inside his head. Born on a Blue Day is a triumphant and uplifting story, starting from early childhood, when Daniel was incapable of making friends and prone to tantrums, to young adulthood, when he learned how to control himself and to live independently, fell in love, experienced a religious conversion to Christianity, and most recently, emerged as a celebrity. The world's leading neuroscientists have been studying Daniel's ability to solve complicated math problems in one fell swoop by seeing shapes rather than making step-by-step calculations. Here he explains how he does it, and how he is able to learn new languages so quickly, simply by absorbing their patterns. Fascinating and inspiring, Born on a Blue Day explores what it's like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human -- our minds., One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans story.
LC Classification Number
RC553.A88T36 2007
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