SHAKUNTALA DEVI - MATHS GENIUS

MATHEMATICAL GENIUS –SHAKUNTALA DEVI

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• Shakuntala Devi was born in Bangalore, India, to an orthodox priestly Kannada Brahmin family. 
• Her father rebelled against becoming a temple and instead joined a circus, where he worked as a trapeze and tightrope priest performer, and later as a lion tamer and a human cannonball.
• Shakuntala Devi was only around three years old and she was roped in to help her father with card tricks. Her father left the circus and took her on road shows that displayed her amazing ability at number crunching.  
• It is worth noting that she was able to do this, despite having had no formal education.  
• By age six she demonstrated her calculation and memorization   abilities at the University of Mysore. At the age of eight she had success at Annamalai University by doing the same. 
•  In 2006 she released In the Wonderland of Numbers which talks about a girl Neha and her fascination for numbers. She developed the concept of 'mind dynamics'.
• In 1977 in USA she competed with a computer to see who give the cube root of 188138517 faster, she won.   
• On June 18, 1980, she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London.  
• She correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in 28 seconds. 
• This event is mentioned in the "Guinness book of records"
• On April 21, 2013 at around 8:15 am, Shakuntala Devi died at a hospital in Bangalore, India. She had been admitted to the Bangalore hospital on April 3 as her kidneys had become weak and she also had respiratory problem.
• She was 83 years old.