THINKING IN NUMBERS: HOW MATHS ILLUMINATES OUR LIVES

Book ID/图书代码： 00530012B56529

English Summary/英文概要： This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet’s world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions and equations underpin all our lives.
Inspired by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn’s sixth finger or his mother’s unpredictable behaviour, Tammet explores questions such as why time seems to speed up as we age, whether there is such a thing as an average person and how we can make sense of those we love.
Thinking in Numbers will change the way you think about maths and fire your imagination to see the world with fresh eyes.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部来自数学奇才丹尼尔•谭米特的新作。在谭米特世界里，数字是美丽的，而这些数字照亮着我们的生活和心灵。丹尼尔借鉴奇闻异事和我们的日常生活中的事例，作者带领我们一同与其分享数字，分数和我们生活中的方程式的独特乐趣。
来源于雪花的复杂图案，安娜•波莲的第六根手指，或是他母亲不可预测的行为模式，谭米特探究了诸如为何时光看上去加速了我们的年龄老化速度，是否可以作为一个普通人永远地生活下去，以及我们如何能感受自己的所爱。
数字思维将改变你对数学的想法，用全新的眼光激发你对数字世界的想象力.（Sandy）

Awards/获奖情况：" An interesting and often beautiful approach: Tammet writes well....Tammet’s discussion of big numbers is fascinating. " Daily Telegraph

" What lifts Tammet’s entertaining collection above the ordinary are the often surprising links that he sees, explores and explains." Sunday Telegraph

" Thinking in Numbers is unprecedented: a pitch-perfect duet between mathematics and literature. More than that: it is a hybrid. Something new.... These essays are by turns playful and confessional (as when Tammet, the man with the supposedly supercharged brain, singularly fails to predict the simplest actions of his own mother). There are several virtuosic performances. (Noticing that Shakespeare would have been one of the first English schoolchildren to learn about zero, Tammet reinterprets and elucidates some of the poet-playwright’s most powerful and moving verse.) ... We do not approach novels, or even poetry, as timorously as we approach mathematics, though Tammet convincingly demonstrates that the three forms are very closely related, with bonds far stronger and more demonstrable than those that supposedly bind maths to music.... Mathematics, Tammet says, is illimitable. It is a language through which the human imagination expresses itself. Presumably this means mathematics has, or deserves, a literature. In Tammet, it already has a laureate" New Scientist

"Explores the ’what if’ of maths and links it with literature and life. He is an exhilarating thinker, an exciting writer, and looks at the world with an eclectic, quizzical eye." Saga Magazine

" Tammet is an accomplished writer with a prose style akin to a warm embrace, whose first book Born On A Blue Day, about growing up with Asperger syndrome, has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 20 languages.... In this scintillating collection of 25 essays (I wonder why he did not stop at a more easily divided 24) Tammet enlightens and entertains in (approximately) equal measure.He even argues persuasively that mathematics like literature helps “expand our circle of empathy” and that “numbers, properly considered, make us better people”. Verdict: 5/5 " Daily Express

" a miscellany of personal anecdotes and how mathematics links to subjects such as history, psychology and literature." Alex Bellos, BBC Focus

"These essays have no resemblance to maths as taught in my state school. They are more art than science, steeped in classical history and charming anecdote. As fluid with words as with numbers, his essays are artfully constructed: intriguing openings to entice us; interesting snippets of history; accessible but unpatronising tones; neat endings. His relationship with digits is synaesthetic: he ascribes characteristics to them more commonly associated with people.The essays are short enough to keep interest stimulated, the topics varied... For those to whom maths is shark-infested water, this delightful volume shows the safety and comfort offered by numbers." Independent

"In Tammet’s mind, literature, art and maths are united. For him, maths’ real-life applications are not merely tax returns and restaurant bills, but the storytelling of an infinite subject and the reasoning behind our daily existence." Huffington Post

About the Author/作者介绍： 丹尼尔•谭米特（Daniel Tammet，1979年1月31日－）是一位因患有学者综合症而拥有超常智力的英国作家，有“脑人”（Brain Man）之称。他是迄今为止唯一一位能够正常交流并把他脑中信息处理的过程表达出来的自闭学者，这让他受到了许多神经科学工作者的关注，丹尼尔•谭米特也被称为解开人类大脑信息编码奥秘的“罗塞塔石碑”。在2007年由4000多名英国人进行的投票调查中，丹尼尔•谭米特入选世界上“在世的一百位天才”，名列第十五位。
出生在伦敦东区的丹尼尔，在家中的九个孩子里排行老大。他在4岁时患上了癫痫，自此以后他的成长一直伴随着医学治疗，这让他经历了一段非常痛苦的童年。患病之后的谭米特开始对数字异常的敏感，他有时会因为数数而忘乎所以，这让他经常遭到小朋友的模仿和取笑。然而丹尼尔•谭米特并没有像其他自闭学者一样完全逃避到孤独症的监狱裡，谭米特认为这可能是他的大家庭让他不得不适应了这种状况。丹尼尔•谭米特於25岁的时候被剑桥大学的孤独症研究中心诊断为亞斯伯格症候群。
丹尼尔•谭米特具有一种非常丰富的联觉能力。在他眼中，每一个数字都有一个特有的形状、颜色和质地。在接受哥倫比亞廣播公司的60分钟时事杂志栏目录制的《被称作“脑人”的学者》节目的采访中，丹尼尔•谭米特描述了数字在他脑中的视觉形象，他说“它们的轮廓不是静态的，它们充满了颜色，充满了质地。从某种意义上讲，它们充满了生命力。”例如在丹尼尔的眼中289是丑陋的，而333很漂亮。丹尼尔•谭米特不只在口头上描述这些视觉形象，他还从事这方面的艺术创作，其中包括一幅描绘圆周率的水彩画。
丹尼尔•谭米特保持着圆周率背诵的欧洲纪录，在2004年的圆周率日（三月十四日）上创造的22,514位，共耗时五小时零九分钟。

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