Talk: 'The Boy With The Incredible Brain' - Daniel Tammet, Autistic Savant

Wednesday April 20th, 7-9pm at the Linbury Building, Worcester College, Oxford 

On Behalf of the National Society for Epilepsy

Daniel Tammet, 26, will appear at the UK preview screening of his upcoming TV documentary: 'The Boy With The Incredible Brain' at Oxford's Worcester College on April 20th. The screening will be followed by a talk by Daniel with a Q&A session afterwards. 

The documentary was filmed last year and features the story of British autistic Savant, Daniel Tammet and his amazing mental skills. The programme includes footage from Daniel's record-breaking 'Pi in the Sky' event when last March he set a new European record by reciting the mathematical constant Pi (3.14...) to 22,514 decimal places from memory in a time of 5 hours, 9 minutes. The documentary also shows Daniel being tested by the world's leading neuroscientists in Britain and the USA and his meeting with Kim Peek, a fellow Savant and the original 'Rain Man'. 

In other sequences from the programme, Daniel is shown mentally calculating huge sums, card counting in Las Vegas, beating chess hustlers at their own game and, in the documentary's final challenge to Daniel, his attempt to learn the Icelandic language from scratch in just 7 days (he is shown being interviewed live in Reykjavik in only Icelandic !)

Daniel's talk promises to provide unique and extraordinary insight into the workings of the savant mind and gives members of the public their first-ever chance to ask questions directly to Daniel in the Q&A session following his talk. 

To book a seat, please call the ticket hotline on 01494 601 410. 

Any questions on the talk can be sent to organiser Simon Ekless at: [email protected] 

You can read more about Daniel in a recent Guardian profile article available online at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1409903,00.html 

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