Charlotte McDonald
speaker
483 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2012
last heard 11 Jun
Charlotte McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you very much, Charlotte.
I'm sure people will.
On More or Less, we think numbers help to understand the real world.
But for Daniel Tammet, they're a lot more important than that.
For him, numbers don't just help him to understand the real world, they're his ticket to being part of it.
I've been talking to Daniel about his new book, Thinking in Numbers, and I asked him first to explain how he'd managed to learn Icelandic...
And nearly a decade ago you stood in the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and recited Pi to how many digits was it?
This is a book in part about your relationship with numbers.
So I was expecting to read all these extraordinary tales that I couldn't relate to, but actually, in many ways, the anecdotes that you...
recall the stories you tell.
They're really stories of just a child who's curious about the world and curious about numbers.
I remember doing at least one of the things you described doing.
So perhaps many children have some kind of facility with numbers and a natural curiosity with numbers.
And I wonder whether you feel that the adult world, our educational institutions are terribly good at tapping into that.
Daniel Tammet.
And that's all we have time for this week.
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