Daniel Tammet vs Jedediah Buxton
Two savants, compared on what is actually documented: field, era, country and record. No invented numbers.
The record, side by side
| Daniel Tammet | Jedediah Buxton | |
| Field | Science | Mathematics |
| Sub-field | Biology | Mathematician |
| Born | 1979 | not documented |
| Died | living / not documented | living / not documented |
| Country of birth | ENG | United Kingdom |
| 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
- Both are documented on this site with a verified biography.
Where they part
- Different fields: Science for Daniel Tammet, Mathematics for Jedediah Buxton.
- Born in different countries: ENG and United Kingdom.
Questions people ask
- What field is each of them in?
- Daniel Tammet is filed under Science (Biology). Jedediah Buxton is filed under Mathematics (Mathematician).
- Were they contemporaries?
- No - their lifetimes do not overlap.