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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Shakuntala Devi, an Indian child prodigy-mental calculator also known as the "human computer," has been honored with the latest home page doodle from Google.

Shakuntala Devi was an Indian math genius known for solving tough problems in seconds. Her incredible skills earned her the title of Human Computer. Tap to read.

There’s no one way to be a mathematical genius. Shakuntala Devi had little formal education. Maryam Mirzakhani attended graduate school at Harvard University. Two films chronicle how each woman became ...