Rudiger Gamm

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Rüdiger Gamm (born July 10, 1971 in Welzheim , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German memory and mental trainer .

Life

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Gamm spent his youth in the Alfdorf district of Rienharz . During his school days, math was his problem subject. After graduating from secondary school , Gamm trained as an insurance salesman . After reading a math book, he discovered his skills and first learned the square numbers between 1 and 99 by heart. More potencies and memorized numerical products were added and after a week he realized that he could calculate faster in his head than a mathematician who appeared on the radio. Gamm was 21 at the time.

Since 2005 he has been teaching mathematical mental training in various schools. He also appeared in international competitions and on television, for example in 1994 in Wetten, dass ..? and in 2006 in the episode memory giants in the television documentary Expedition into the brain and in the Canadian television documentary The Real Superhumans and the Quest for the Future Fantastic . On October 22nd, 2007 he set an (unofficial) world record in Isny im Allgäu . He had the audience call out any two digits (first a “9” and then an “8”) and was able to calculate the hundredth power of the number 98 without errors. In February 2008 his first book Train your brain was published by Heyne-Verlag . The secrets of success of a memory artist that he wrote together with his partner Alexandra Ehlert. In 2008 he appeared on the rbb television program Dickes B. moderated by Jörg Thadeusz and on the radio program SWR 2 Zeitgenossen.

On April 27, 2013 he won the title “ Germany's super brain ” in the ZDF broadcast of the same name .

Gamm gives seminars as a mental trainer .

Skills

His extraordinary achievements are mainly in the area of ​​numbers. This is not just about arithmetic in the traditional sense, but also about keeping results with large amounts of numbers that can be "called up" if necessary - even after many years. For most of his abilities he counts on memorized combinations of numbers.

Gamm does not have any disabilities or limitations such as autism or other brain dysfunction. After an investigation, Allan Snyder , an expert on gifted islands , found that Rüdiger Gamm is not a savant . He has the ability to adapt his calculation algorithms to new problems. But savants act more intuitively and do not master this. In various scientific studies, however, an enlargement of the brain lobes and a strongly thickened corpus callosum have been found. In addition, it has also been proven that he used episodic memory for his calculations.

successes

  • "Bet that ..?" Betting king 1994 with 84%
  • World Cup Winner Audience Award 2006
  • Winner of Germany's mastermind 2013

literature

  • Rüdiger Gamm, Alexandra Ehlert: Train your brain: The secrets of success of a memory artist. Heyne, 2008, ISBN 3-453-60064-9 .
  • The brain training: fitness for memory, logic and creativity. Heyne, 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-68543-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Welzheim and the surrounding area: talent made a life's work. www.zvw.de, February 10, 2013, accessed on July 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c Sextillions, trillions: Rüdiger Gamm has nothing but numbers in his head , Handelsblatt , June 11, 2004
  3. ↑ a b Barbara Abrell: Wonder World Brain: The Secrets of Geniuses. www.focus.de, March 1, 2007, accessed on February 24, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Philip Alsen: Bet that ..? - The book, Riva Verlag, p. 53 [1]
  5. ↑ Expeditions into the brain: Savants and their extraordinary talents ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  6. ↑ Rüdiger Gamm sets world record , Schwäbische Zeitung, October 25, 2007, PDF file
  7. ↑ SWR2 contemporary Rüdiger Gamm, arithmetic genius and memory artist, in conversation with Susanne Kaufmann , SWR2.de, December 26, 2008
  8. ↑ Rüdiger Gamm is the mastermind. www.zvw.de, April 27, 2013, accessed on May 14, 2013 .
  9. ^ The Key to Genius: Autistic savants are born with miswired neurons - and extraordinary gifts. The breakthrough science behind our new understanding of the brain. , Wired, 11/2012
personal data
SURNAME Gamm, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German arithmetic and memory genius
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Welzheim