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Daniel Tammet (born 31 January 1979) is an English writer, essayist, translator, and autistic savant. His 2006 memoir, ''Born on a Blue Day'', about his life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association ''Young Adult Library Services'' magazine. His second book, ''Embracing the Wide Sky'', was one of France's best-selling books of 2009. ''Thinking in Numbers'', his third book, was published on 16 August 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and on 30 July 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada. His books have been published in 20 languages.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andrew Lownie Literary Agency )〕 He was elected in 2012 to serve as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. ==Personal life== Tammet was born Daniel Paul Corney and raised in Barking, East London, England, as the eldest of nine children. He suffered epileptic seizures as a young child, which he subsequently outgrew following medical treatment. He participated twice in the World Memory Championships in London under his birth name, placing 12th in 1999 and 4th in 2000.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Contestant 'Daniel Corney' )〕 He changed his birth name by deed poll because "it didn't fit with the way he saw himself." He took the word ''Tammet'' from the Estonian for 'oak tree'. At age twenty-five, he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the University of Cambridge Autism Research Centre. He is one of fewer than a hundred "prodigious savants" according to Darold Treffert, M.D., the world's leading researcher in the study of savant syndrome. He was the subject of a documentary film entitled ''Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain'', first broadcast on the British television station Channel 4 on 23 May 2005. He met software engineer Neil Mitchell in 2000. They lived in Kent, England, where they had a quiet life at home with their cats, preparing meals from their garden. He and Mitchell operated the online e-learning company Optimnem, where they created and published language courses. Tammet lives now in France with Jérôme Tabet, a photographer whom he met while promoting his autobiography. Although he has said that he did not think he would be here if it were not for the love and support of Mitchell, more recently he noted that he used to live a rigid existence aimed at calming his many anxieties—"I was very happy, but it was a small happiness"—whereas now, as the subtitle of ''Embracing the Wide Sky'', "a tour across the horizons of the mind", asserts, he believes that we ought to seek to liberate our brains—a belief reflected in his new life: My life used to be very simple and regimented but since then I have travelled constantly and given lots of lectures and it just changed me... It made me much more open, much more interested in, I guess, the full potential of what my mind could do... Because of that change I grew and in a sense I grew apart from my long-term partner, so we parted amicably in 2007, and a short while later I met my current partner, who is from France so I decided to go and live with him in Avignon.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Tammet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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