How Maths Illuminates Our Lives - Daniel Tammet
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- Acclaimed author and one of the world's most extraordinary minds, Daniel Tammet visits the RSA to give us a unique perspective on how mathematics can help us to make sense of the world and our place in it. With Simon Ings, novelist, reviewer and editor of Arc, magazine of futures and fiction from the New Scientist.
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"When you start school, your head is full of ideas. The teacher will quickly take those ideas out of your head because they're not part of the curriculum." This might be the most insightful and heartbreakingly true statement I've ever heard.
Coach you on how to apply to uni...
Teacher: Is there any questions?..
Students: (absolutely no one asks a question... Well, almost no one)
Student: Uhm?.. I have one...
Teacher: Yes, go on?
Student: Should we also reference this?
Teacher: (teacher burst into laughter & taps on the table while glancing @ the whole class)
Student: (Smirks back @ teacher)
Daniel is incredibly articulate. That is one of his savant skills which he doesn't call a skill: his ability to explain things. He is very unique in the savant world.
Well said Xylok! I love listening to him. It is like the 'cataracts' have been removed from his eyes, heart and mind!
plenty of people are articulate, and it can be trained if u are attracted to the subject of teaching, and narrating. i wouldn't call it a savant skill nor anything out of the ordinary.
he is surprisingly articulate for someone with his disorder. i will give him that. but being articulate is not rare.
i think his clear mindedness and ability to express his ideas in a structured manner comes from not being hindered by a lot of the social rules, ego, presumptions and so on, that most other people are struggling with.
He speaks with remarkable clarity he's a poet.
I adore every chance to hear Daniel speak. His voice is so soothing. To refer him as a "high functioning autistic" is quite an understatement of the great beauties of his ideas and insights, and his unusual abilities to speak about important things from a wider perspective than we normally experience.
Daniel intuits so many things from numbers themselves, colored by his synesthesia. I am fascinated by his particular descriptions of his feelings about each number, including multidigit numbers. However, I suspect that his reaction to each number is quite personal, meaning that no other synesthetic savant would have those same reactions. Nonetheless, from his own idiosynchratic feelings he can achieve real mathematical answers and calculations. This suggests that there are infinite ways to arrive at mathematical answers. His brain functioning is truly inspiring and remarkable.
I haven't got a clue what either of these blokes are talking about, but i find it strangely relaxing.
I think what you're experiencing is ASMR...check it out.
yeah! he should do an ASMR video on math!
Get woke, get educated, expand your mind a bit.
you must be british, right?
No, I’m Betulese actually.
He is my savant hero ....I'm a savant also....he inspired me when I was going thru my savant syndrome discovery.
Daniel has such a lovely and lively expressive way of teaching practicalities with a sense of beauty and wonder. I am enthralled by his vision.
One of the many things that fascinate me about Daniel Tammet is that his accent
changes. I'm guessing it might have to do with who he has been
speaking to a lot lately, or what language he is communicating in day
to day, for example, if he is speaking with a German-ish accent, has
he been surrounded by and speaking to people of a Germanic language
lately?
I've watch quite a few CZcams vids of him now,
and he often speaks in a different accent to the last one. I find
that fascinating.
He learnt 8 languages by 25,making is accident sound strange.
He also lives in Germany and only speaks English when back in England
@@bmorris5863 He now lives in Paris with his husband, French photographer, Jérôme Tabet.
Daniel should re-write the Maths curriculum in schools.
+melody croft brown Would he really be able to help? He sees numbers as shapes and colours and multiplication as shapes formed in-between other shapes. I've yet to see a comprehensible text on how this is done. If he was to do the Maths curriculum for schools - it would end up being one line of text, like 'Feel the force pupil, feel the force'
+johnnyw66 It took me a day to prove that this form of multiplication would be impossible using only 2D shapes all the same color.
What is your proof?
That would be utterly irresponsible.
He's such an inspiration. He makes learning fun and he helped me become aware of my own synesthesia.
To those who say "he has accomplished nothing", I don't think he has ever claimed to have accomplished much.. But his chief accomplishment is his view of maths (and learning languages - he is also a polyglot) and the ways those subject could be taught better through a different interpretation of their meaning or relevance. He is also one of the rare Savants who, while being autistic, has trained himself to communicate to others the thought processes involved in being in that state, and that is not only an accomplishment but extremely useful to others dealing with autism.
Only people who are made ignorant because of their insecurities would think in such a way
Daniel Tammet speaks so wonderfully.
One of the greatest minds in human history.
just beautiful...
Beautiful discussion.
This guy is so interesting to listen to. I intuit a lot of what he's saying.
If they made a movie about this guy I would be disappointed if Seth Green didn't play him.
+blackxcherry22 I second that!
blackxcherry22 I think Denzel Washington would be better.
Sasha Baron Cohen - end of discussion.
How about Daneil play himself ther is many ha done that what make you think Deniel is not the best candidate for Daniel Tennant ? I strongly believe Daniel can do anything that ask of him !
blackxcherry22 OMG I was literally thinking this guy looks strangely familiar and you nailed it!
I am 85 and have read 4 of his books ln the last year....why ....i do not know but because of CZcams i found him and enjoy his books and lectures.....his book Born on a Blue Day i have read 3 times..
I love the way he enunciates his words. We should all try to see the beauty in the mundane
I've always been proficient in grammar, vocabulary, and spelling. I think this might be a consequence of the singular focus in my school years: "Read as much as possible." I absorbed so much literature, that the syntax and composition of the English language became simple to me. I did get a few lessons in school (I can identify nouns and verbs and objects), but largely it was an intuitive absorption of patterns.
I could never suss out numbers, though. That's where my executive function flies out the window.
Great talk :)
School is all about restricting your creativity and straight jacketing it to the curriculum, what power then does this unique man possess to be so unfettered in his original thought
Would really love to see this animated!!
Amazing.
In deed, my friend
LOVE IT! i LOVE how he thinks, & explains, i i soooo wish i could think that way, even if for short time, gosh! he's a gift of the Universe/God to us
I'm convince this guy is an aliens, so amazingly interesting, God bless you. I need to buy your books
OMG Daniel Tammet!!!!!
First of all.. he's sharing his "gift"("OK?"), and by that, inspiring tones of lives.
open your mind , that man is a link and a teacher. and very young.
you talk like you can know how much his action will advance humanity..
and that boll ox
Apart from his genius the guy is very clever and wise! If you know what I mean
wow just wow i have read his book born on a blue day worth reading
I believe that once we understand all connections in our brain and how it works, all we have to do is throw information randomly, this way we gonna use a full power of our brain and figure out things instinctively. Every one has their own Network connection so, all we need is scan our brain and customize a processing language for for every single individual.
I've been quite fortunate in that I'm *not* a natural math wiz. So I can describe that state of wholistic understanding of relationships becuase I've achieved it, but not entirely held onto it, I sort of porpose above and below that threshold. This has given me an opportunity to study and understand it somewhat.
Those who wish to make maths central need to make this wholistic understanding their primary goal. Memorisation of rules is a tool for getting there but it's not the destination.
He's written and published two books, learnt Icelandic in a week, amongst ten other languages, recited pi to 22,514 decimal places (a European record), and has proven invaluable to neuroscience for being a savant who can vividly describe his thought process.
Yeah, sounds like a whole lotta nothing.
he isn't completely accurate upon everything but surprisingly accurate upon matters i have not previously seen such accuracy expressed upon in publication before
Nice listen. It's a shame RSA doesn't have more subscribers.
I don't see numbers in a synthetic way, I experience colors as tastes or tastes as color. Nothing so wondrous as Daniel. I also found out as an adult I have high functioning autism. After a lifetime of misinterpreting social cues. This is so interesting to listen to.
synesthetic. Sorry.
N Neichan what was that video that daniel tammet explained the personalities of the numbers he sees???? i want to know
James Ram, its called "Brainman" I think. This is a two year old conversation, so I hope you sought out and found it by now. Cheers!
when i see the way a good teacher gives intuition, i remember just how inadequate school teachers are.
they're so focused on finishing a lesson, they have zero empathy for someone not initiated into the high and mighty cult, no care goes into graphing, into visualizing and understanding. taking apart the machine into most essential parts, then seeing how they relate to make a whole
just do this and this, get a grade and get out.
I want to go on this journey, I feel an urge to be reborn, learn Maths and be ultra creative.
I still dont know what blue+blue is whats the point?
The reason kids, and people in general, aren't more interested in mathematics is becuase most people never achieve that difficult to describe mental place where you don't see numbers or operations any more, you just see relationships. Most people who have achieved this achieved it early and don't remember not having it, so they don't understand that it's not something everyone has and so don't understand why other people just don't "get it". The goal needs to be to help people achieve this state
Fell asleep around 4:18, woke up and stopped video at 10:37.
AWESOME!!!! I would love to have his brain! lol!!
If you "had" his brain, you would be him.
yeah, I still need calculator for simple operations but I've always had the best marks in math 'cose i understood the way the task is needed to be solved
Rayleigh's scattering. White light from the sun, just looks blue in our retina xD
Daniel's lookin fab.
If Daniel would meet a man called Dutae he would utter what Einstein uttered when Ed Hubble shown him the running away galaxies.
I think even his breathing may be mathematical. When he draws breath through his nose, it may just be that he is a well practiced thinker, and a composed and articulate individual, but it seems to me that his method of breathing is calculated in a special way. Quite an interesting speculation, that the way we are directs the way that we are. I'm not high.
phi, pi, music, fractals. MATHS = AWESOME
Great interview.. BUHHT did he just reference that women can't be mathematician ?
oh he is the guy of the 22514 digits of pi! Awesome
Is he an athlete or a coach?
Hey Daniel what am I thinking
I thought so
it's clarity, it's order. it's beauty, it's god's language
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it structures your mind
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you're on to something with -relationships-, i admit i never was a math whiz, but the older i get the more appreciation i have for it (Khan academy)
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and it's hard to describe why the school system CRUSHED my relationship with math. it was never about the core beauty, always about the volume of tasks, just do it, dont ask too much. instead of understanding relationships, it came to memorizing operations. ?
Interesting that the Chinese avoid the number four. He really likes it. I don't mind it either and consider it somehow good.
18:06 exactly why we should be allowed calculators on tests
>Proven invaluable to neuroscience
Good one, almost got me there
The answer is 42. I read this somewhere.
2 is blue, 3 is yellow, 4 is green, 5 is my OCD number and thus holds more significance, transcending colour, i think 9 to me is a deep purple-ish,
David McNally what was that video that daniel tammet explained the personalities of the numbers he sees???? i want to know
My instincts are confused. I'm a straight male yet I want to have his babies. I must be trying to continue the species but going about it in the wrong way.
*+Lemonfairy* - no. Sorry.
Do you have a sister?
That chap needs to keep his hands under control.
Multi-discipline thinking.
Calculate the infinite.
it is bruno
Tammett doesn’t seem as interested as his interviewer is in sounding impressive in terms of his vocabulary. This allows me to take his points about simplicity, purity etc much more fully.
I don't like maths, but i want him to teach me.
daniel has said he wasn't born autistic, but the severe seizer (that he almost died of) had an impact on his abilitie to analyze/learn in a more unusually way. david had to do his own way in order to learn. but we can all learn different ways to remember things.
How is it that Daniel has the same lisp as Dr. James Grime of Numberphile? Is because they grow up saying maths with an S in England?
Daniel Tammet is not actually Daniel Tammet but Gabriele Paolini.
512 Hz is the freq of the heart chakra.
How can anyone think 4 is blue...? 4 is more red than anything
4 is green to me, 2 is blue, 5 is yellow, 3 is red, nine is white,
TheAxhol Thats why you get the answer wrong :)
TheAxhol 4 is blue, 5 is green, 6 is blue, seven is brown, 8 is brown, 9 is brown, 10 is yellow
TheAxhol what was that video that daniel tammet explained the personalities of the numbers he sees???? i want to know
***** I agree with you on 2 3 4 7 8 :P
they really need to receive the information I have.
+mark g what new info?
+Elijah S. Krenning many things that I believe can be proven. if pi is infinite then so is the circle. you will never be area of the circle with pi. I can help scientists find the true area.
I believe many things can be proven too, and it's great if that can get the conversation going. It gets complicated though because some solutions are designed to be based on personal-encounters.
I'm referring to Christianity; there is no knockdown-mathematical proof for the risen Lord, but when we study the Bible for ourselves God answers for Himself.
+Elijah S. Krenning I am very glad you are a believer Eli. I believe that heaven is. I have memories of being there. I am wanting to find my way back there. But if you are not ready for all that I can tell you be cautious about what your spiritual maturity is. I also have seen and felt the other places. Things that crush spirits and kill planets.
I've heard about life split into 3 stages: Justification (is believing the Savior gave Himself for us),
Sanctification (is living every-moment for Him - implying a consistent repentance for how much we fail),
Glorification (is in heaven with Him).
Mathematics is simile, metaphore, art.
Actually there are 2^9-1=511 subsets, if we exclude the possibility of a combination with no children.
douche.
+melese1988 finally someone else has noticed his error. He made this same error in his book. Yet he is a savant? Please be humble and fix the error.
We don't exclude it
@asmr
And then the first home-robot ever revolted for having to make tea...
Daniel should completely reinvent the primary school system..
***** what was that video that daniel tammet explained the personalities of the numbers he sees???? i want to know
Jan Andhisfiets on Ted
why are we whispering?
mathematics with stephen merchant
why are there 9 digits? what if there was like.. another digit
Then they wouldn't be digits anymore, because we have only 10 fingers :p
There are 10 digits: 0-9
any connection with numbers and billiard balls? the 4 ball is a shade of blue. Maybe this dude played some pool in his youth, or maybe the guy who invented billiards sees numbers as colors also... think about it.....
If he's not a mathematician, I'm not a human.
If we ever have the chance to meet aliens, this guy must go.
Aaaaand it get's cut off....
Existence is really really more than a lot, so as it's perception. We should hang the politicians and charlatans for ruining humans way of living.
Morternity
Catholics also say also say to study the Early Church Fathers to see how they worshipped God according to the teachings of His Son, no exceptions!
I demand tasteful edits
Creativity: He created his own language.
Originality: His ability to describe his condition was previously unheard of in neuroscience.
He has suffered discrimination for being "weird" and because of his sexuality. And now he spends his days trying to pull the rest of us up by the bootstraps.
Feel free to recommend someone better.
So what he meant is that we should let the women make the tea. Since he used it to reinforce his argument.
ASMR
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scientists recently proved the number 1 is turquoise, 2 is vermillion, 3 is burned satin, 4 is puce, and the pattern continues thus.
paint by numbers
you surely will give us the source, I suppose
infinite number of chess games but only if they are reapiting
Ah yes, Born on a Blue Day.
Id vote him for president
He doesn't even lift!
If he is a savont , why is it the person known to have the highest IQ in math is not him and that person is not a savont?
+Cosmo John The highest IQ in math? What are you talking about? IQ is the general intelligence that extends to all logical, spatial, and linguistic areas.
cause hes not asian
"Illuminat" - es....AHA !
MATH HAS TO DO SOMETHING WITH ILLUMINATI ! I WILL NEVER STUDY IT AGAIN !!!!
shadows horrible