Shakuntala Devi walked onto stages around the world with no calculator, no notes and no safety net. What followed left ...
Shakuntala Devi’s legend is immense. The Indian mathematician traveled the world with her one-woman show, showing off mental math skills that earned her the nickname “The Human Computer.” Given any ...
Shakuntala Devi is a 2020 family biopic drama-comedy movie directed by Anu Menon who co-wrote the screenplay with Nayanika Mahtani. Since this film is based on the life of a renowned Indian ...
Sanya Malhotra for her upcoming film, Shakuntala Devi is going to be seen sharing the screen with Vidya Balan. She will be essaying the character of Shakuntala Devi's daughter Anupama Banerji. The ...
Quick: What's the cube root of 61,629,875? Stumped? Shakuntala Devi, the woman known as the "Human Computer," could tell you, and probably faster than any mathematical computer could. Devi, who passed ...
NEW YORK — Shakuntala Devi, an Indian mathematical wizard known as ‘‘the human computer’’ for her ability to make incredibly swift calculations, died Sunday in Bangalore, India. She was 83. The cause ...
The New York Times has up a gem of an obituary, 500 words chock-full of wonderful bits about its subject, a mathematician by the name of Shakuntala Devi, who passed away in Bangalore on Sunday at the ...
Popularly known around the world and amongst math enthusiasts as the 'Human Computer', Shakuntala Devi was an iron lady known to break stereotypes ever since was a little girl. Never one to shy away ...
Shakuntala Devi was known for her ability to crunch numbers quickly. Nov. 4, 2013— -- High school memories of math class may come flooding back to people who visit the Google homepage. Today's ...
Quick, without Googling the answer or using a calculator — what is the cube root of 188,132,517? Did you get it 546,372,891? In 1977, Shakuntala Devi was able to solve this problem faster than a ...