British psychologist and educational consultant
Tony Buzan (2 June 1942 – 13 April 2019) was a British writer and educational consultant. He developed mind mapping and coined the term mental literacy. Buzan was born in London and received double Honours in psychology, English, mathematics and the General Sciences from the University of British Columbia in 1964. He was probably best known for his book, Use Your Head, his promotion of mnemonic systems and his mind-mapping techniques.
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During the renaissances in thinking led by Shakespeare and Goethe, the first new development in memory techniques for 1,700 years appeared: the Major System. This was the first system that enabled the user to transfer easily and instantaneously from numbers to letters, thus creating the opportunity for a system that could stretch from zero to an infinite number, and which allowed the user to translate any word into its own special number, and any number into its own special letter. This multiplied the opportunity for developing memory techniques 100-fold.
As knowledge of the alphabet and its permutations and combinations is to traditional literacy, and as a knowledge of numbers and their permutations and combinations is to mathematics, so a knowledge of the biological and conceptual alphabets of the brain and its apparently infinite permutations and combinations is to mental literacy.