Today (April 21, 2013) is the Memorial
Day of Shakuntala Devi, the Indian female mathematical genius who defeats
machines such as computers and calculators.
Shakuntala Devi was born on November 04, 1939, in Bangalore, Karnataka to a Brahmin family. His father worked in a circus. At the age of three, he performed card games with his father and showed off his mathematical skills. At the age of six, at the University of Mysore and at the age of eight, Anna exhibited accounting and memory skills and amazed everyone. Shakuntala moved to London with her father in 1944 and returned to India in the mid-1960s. She married Baridos Banerjee, an IAS officer from Kolkata. They divorced in 1979.
Shakuntala Devi travelled around the world to show off her mathematical ability. The most important of these was a trip to Europe in 1950 and a trip to New York in 1976. In 1988, Arthur Jensen, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, tested Devi's mathematical ability. They include accounts with large numbers. For example, cube number 61,629,875 and the seventh number 170,859,375 were asked. The strange thing is that Arthur asked the goddess the question and the goddess gave the exact answer before mentioning the question in his notebook. In 1990, Arthur published the results of his research in the journal Intelligence.
Shakuntala Devi is also an astrologer. He has written recipes, fantasy novels and puzzle books. Mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi was the first to write a book, "The World of Homosexuals," about the attraction of humans in India. In 1977 he defeated the computer in calculating the cube source of the number 188,132,517. In the same year at Southern Methodist University, he calculated the 23rd root of a 201-digit number to be 546,372,891 in 50 seconds. He completed this in 12 seconds faster than the Univac-1108 system. But the U.S. has to verify it. It is noteworthy that the Bureau of Standards installed a special program on the Univac 1101 system.
At an event hosted by Imperial College London on June 18, 1980, the two 13-digit number multiplied by 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 and in exactly 28 seconds, 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 answers were recorded. On Devi's birthday, November 4, 2013, Google posted a picture of Shakuntala Devi on its homepage in her honour.
Shakuntala Devi was admitted to a hospital in Bangalore due to kidney problems and respiratory problems. Indian mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi passed away on April 21, 2013, at the age of 83 in Bangalore without any treatment. For many, the account is a crush. Those who have studied the 16th formula in multiplication will not be much. But Shakuntala Devi, who is hailed as a human-computer, has travelled to many countries of the world to show off her mathematical prowess and achievements, and to bring glory to our country as well.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh, Assistant Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.
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