by Daniel Tammet · ARENES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782352040750
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«Embrasser le ciel immense» is Daniel Tammet's essay on the brain and intelligence, published by Les Arènes in paperback (331 pages, in French).
Daniel Tammet, a mathematical savant with Asperger's syndrome and synaesthesia, reflects on memory, creativity, language and perception, and explains how he learns, reasons, calculates and memorises. The author puts forward hypotheses about the future evolution of intelligence based on his experience and on studies by neuroscientists of his case.
The subtitle of the edition is «le cerveau des génies». The work was originally published in English as «Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind».
For those interested in neuroscience, psychology and testimonies from people with Asperger's syndrome.
Daniel Paul Tammet is an English writer and savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services magazine. Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France's best-selling books of 2009. His third book, Thinking in Numbers, was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada. Tammet's books have been published in over 20 languages.
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