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“Ah, bankers, students, workers, officials, servants, you are the cock-suckers of the useful, the masturbators of necessity. I shall never work. My hands are pure.” — Louis Aragon

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Tag Archives: Daniel Tammet

How maths illuminates our lives

Posted on January 23, 2013 by simonings

Posted in books, events | Tagged Daniel Tammet, mathematics

Thinking in Numbers by Daniel Tammet, reviewed for Culture Lab

Posted on August 14, 2012 by simonings
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To be “afraid of numbers” is a pose, a position, an aesthetic choice, as surely as not “getting” jazz, or condemning this or that kind of art as “rubbish”. http://bit.ly/PTPFN9

Posted in books, reviews and opinion | Tagged autism, Daniel Tammet, Hodder and Stoughton, literature, mathematics, mind, numbers | Leave a Reply
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