Daniel Tammet vs Matt Savage
Two savants, compared on what is actually documented: field, era, country and record. No invented numbers.
The record, side by side
| Daniel Tammet | Matt Savage | |
| Field | Science | Science |
| Sub-field | Biology | Astronomy |
| Born | 1979 | 1992 |
| Died | living / not documented | living / not documented |
| Country of birth | ENG | - |
| Star sign | Aquarius | Taurus |
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 held here under Science.
- Their lifetimes overlap.
Where they part
- 13 years separate their births (1979 and 1992).
Questions people ask
- Who came first, Daniel Tammet or Matt Savage?
- Daniel Tammet. Daniel Tammet was born in 1979, Matt Savage in 1992.
- What field is each of them in?
- Daniel Tammet is filed under Science (Biology). Matt Savage is filed under Science (Astronomy).
- Were they contemporaries?
- Yes - their lifetimes overlap.