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Daniel tammet, a prodigious savant with synesthesia, dwells on his love for numbers, offering some revelatory glimpses into a highly unusual brain. Thinking in numbers, by daniel tammet the independent. Aug 22, 2012 thinking in numbers is a strange, hitandmiss little book, a collection of essays about numbers and maths, told through the eyes of someone for whom the whole world speaks in arithmetic. This is the book that daniel tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant. Scriptural references for the bible prophecy numbers.
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