Daniel Tammet vs Jason Padgett
Two savants, compared on what is actually documented: field, era, country and record. No invented numbers.
The record, side by side
| Daniel Tammet | Jason Padgett | |
| Field | Science | Mathematics |
| Sub-field | Biology | Geometry |
| Born | 1979 | 1970 |
| Died | living / not documented | living / not documented |
| Country of birth | ENG | - |
| Star sign | Aquarius | - |
Who they are
Daniel Tammet
On 14 March 2004 — Pi Day — Daniel Tammet sat down in the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and began to recite. For five hours and nine minutes he spoke the digits of pi, one after another, while observers checked him against the printed value. He stopped at 22,514 digits, a European record. To Tammet it had not felt like recall in the ordinary sense. He was not retrieving a list. He was, he said, describing a landscape he could see — pi as a rolling sequence of shapes, colours and…
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What they share
- Near contemporaries - 9 years apart.
- Their lifetimes overlap.
Where they part
- Different fields: Science for Daniel Tammet, Mathematics for Jason Padgett.
Questions people ask
- Who came first, Daniel Tammet or Jason Padgett?
- Jason Padgett. Daniel Tammet was born in 1979, Jason Padgett in 1970.
- What field is each of them in?
- Daniel Tammet is filed under Science (Biology). Jason Padgett is filed under Mathematics (Geometry).
- Were they contemporaries?
- Yes - their lifetimes overlap.