by Daniel Tammet · Blackie Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9788416290116
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«La poesía de los números» is Daniel Tammet's mathematics popularisation essay, published by Blackie Books in hardback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Daniel Tammet, a synaesthete with savant syndrome, perceives numbers with colours and silhouettes. With examples such as learning languages in a week, reciting decimal places of pi or imagining a tribe that cannot count, he turns prime numbers and statistics into a reflection on beauty, memory and chance.
Published in 2015 in the Blackie Books Academia collection (number 59). Translation by Pablo Álvarez Ellacuría; original title: «Thinking in Numbers».
For readers of popular science who want to approach mathematics from a personal and synaesthetic perspective.
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.
