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Daniel Tammet was born in London, in 1979, with congenital childhood epilepsy. Daniel had his first - and, amazingly, his only - major seizure while a toddler. Growing up, he gradually realized he was different. For one thing, Daniel was able to literally 'see' numbers in his head, as if they were images. Not surprisingly, he quickly became proficient in number patterns, able to figure various roots, powers; even the decimal expansions for prime number fractions - often quicker than a friend with a calculator.
Unlike other savants, Daniel outgrew his epilepsy. His astonishing mental skills however remained. As an example, following an invitation from organisers, Daniel attended the largest ever 'World Mental Skills Championship' in London. In August 2000, he was awarded the event's international gold medal for, among other things, the ability to memorize a string of 1,517 randomly-generated decimal digits in a single hour - backwards as well as forwards.
Daniel was subsequently invited to London's Institute of Neurology to undergo tests for a landmark study of prodigious mental ability. The summarized data, co-written by some of Britain's leading brain scientists, appears in the New Year 2003 edition of the highly prestigious 'Nature' neuroscientific magazine.