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 ...

Discover the inspiring life of Shakuntala Devi, India's "human computer," who transformed mathematics into an art form.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Shakuntala Devi was known for her ability to crunch numbers quickly. Nov. 4, 2013— -- High school memories of math class may come flooding back to people who visit the Google homepage. Today's ...