"I experience numbers in a very visual way, using colors, textures, shape and form. Sequences of numbers form landscapes in my mind. It just happens. It's like having a fourth dimension," says Daniel Tammet, a highly functioning autistic savant, who has incredible math, language and memory skills. He can perform mathematical feats of Olympic proportions, has recited Pi from memory up to 22,514 digits for a National Society for Epilepsy charity challenge, yet claims the answers to complex sums come to him visually and spontaneously. Tammet, who has mastered nine languages, learnt Icelandic, a particularly complex language, in a week when the gauntlet was thrown down for this Channel 5 documentary. During the filming Tammet, who lives in Kent, England, was flown to America for tests at San Diego's Center For Brain Studies and to meet fellow savant Kim Peek, the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in the Oscar winning film Rain Man.
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