When she was three, Shakuntala Devi’s father noticed that she could memorize the numbers on cards and figure out card tricks. A trapeze artist, Devi’s father brought his daughter to the crowds to wow ...

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 ...

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.

What a machine couldn’t do, Shakuntala had achieved that feat. Regarded as the human computer, she was a prodigy whose brilliance was simply unsurpassable. Born on November 4, 1929, Devi was an Indian ...

National Award-winning actress Vidya Balan says that stepping into the world of Shakuntala Devi was as intimidating as it was exhilarating. Vidya is playing the mathematician, popularly known as human ...

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 ...

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 ...