On April 21, 2013, math prodigy, astrologer, and philanthropist Shakuntala Devi breathed her last at 83 in Bengaluru. The dailies were abuzz, grieving the loss of this math whiz, better known to the ...
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 ...
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 ...