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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The makers of Vidya Balan's Shakuntala Devi just dropped the first song from the film titled Pass Nahi Toh Fail Nahi, in which Vidya Balan tries to encourage her students to not be scared of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Shakuntla Devi, 87, revealed her weight loss journey during the show and also mentioned how she went down from 123 to 40 kg (Screengrabs: @minexspace/Instagram) While ...

Playing a game of cards at age 3, Shakuntala Devi's lion-tamer father realized she had a gift for numbers. By age five she was a math wizard, and traveled with her father's circus winning fame for her ...