by Daniel Tammet · Patmos-Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783491421165
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«Wolkenspringer» is Daniel Tammet's popular science essay, published by Patmos-Verlag in hardcover (319 pages, in German).
Tammet, one of the few people with savant syndrome who can explain how he thinks, analyzes his memory and his ease with languages and mathematics. He rejects the image of the autistic genius as a supercomputer: these abilities arise from associative and creative thinking, and he combines them with studies in neuroscience, psychology and linguistics.
German translation by Maren Klostermann; original English: «Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind».
For readers interested in autism, neuroscience, psychology and autobiographical accounts of extraordinary minds.
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.
