Daniel Tammet vs Temple Grandin
Two savants, compared on what is actually documented: field, era, country and record. No invented numbers.
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The record, side by side
| Daniel Tammet | Temple Grandin | |
| Field | Science | Literature |
| Sub-field | Biology | Writer |
| Born | 1979 | 1947 |
| Died | living / not documented | living / not documented |
| Country of birth | ENG | United States |
| Star sign | Aquarius | Virgo |
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
- Their lifetimes overlap.
Where they part
- Different fields: Science for Daniel Tammet, Literature for Temple Grandin.
- Born in different countries: ENG and United States.
- 32 years separate their births (1979 and 1947).
Questions people ask
- Who came first, Daniel Tammet or Temple Grandin?
- Temple Grandin. Daniel Tammet was born in 1979, Temple Grandin in 1947.
- What field is each of them in?
- Daniel Tammet is filed under Science (Biology). Temple Grandin is filed under Literature (Writer).
- Were they contemporaries?
- Yes - their lifetimes overlap.