The Savants

A savant is someone with autism. People with autism are generally specially talented at one thing only, their are only 50 people known as savants alive, their brains function differently to most people. We watched a video about George Finn, he was able to recall what the days were if someone gave him a date, for example you could say 31st August 1643 and he would name what day of the week it was. We watched another video of Daniel Tamment, he memorized the first 22,000 numbers of Pi. He traveled to Oxford University to recite the numbers to several people who were following on the sheet. He was going for the world record and he achieved.