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 ...

A film about the Indian mathematics genius is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Here are five facts to get you more familiar. By Priya Arora Shakuntala Devi (1929-2013) was best known as “the human ...

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 ...

You probably never knew her name but you sure wish you had her math skills. Called “The Human Computer” Shakuntala Devi first showed her talent when she was three years old and then amazed scientists ...