Guinness World Records has honoured the late Shakuntala Devi with the record title for 'Fastest human computation'. This certificate has come as a welcome surprise mere days ahead of the release of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1930s, a circus performer discovered that his young daughter was capable of solving complex card-related calculations and had brilliant mental calculation skills. What began as a simple ...

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 ...

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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 ...