Mathematical Genius Shakuntala Devi No More!!

Legendary Mathematical genius Shakuntala devi is no more. Known for her exceptional mathematical abilities Shakuntala Devi died on 21st April 2013 in a hospital in Bengalaru at the age of 83. She was admitted to the hospital following respiratory problems. She developed some heart and kidney complications and died at around 8.15 am in the morning.

Shakuntala Devi was a human robot and literally overpowered computer. She found a place in the Guiness Book of world records for her extraordinary ability to solve complex mathematical problems on a fly. You could ask her just about anything and she could get you

the answer within seconds. She had an extraordinary ability to find the day of any past of future year by just doing some brain calculations.

In 1977 she competed with a computer to find the cuberoot of a random 9-digit number and won easily. She again beat the computer when she found the cuberoot of a 201 digit random number in just around 50 seconds. She used her strong mathematical brain to solve the problem mentally. In spite of being programmed with multiple instructions it took the computer more time than Shakuntala Devi.

Shakuntala Devi was born in an orthodox brahim family. Her father used to work in circus as a trapeze and tightrope performer. At the age of 3, Shakuntala devi assisted her father to perform

card tricks. Her mindblowing number crunching abilities helped her to contribute immensely in some number tricks presented by her father during road shows. Later Shakuntala devi gave a number of presentations in the University of Mysore and Annamalai university. In 1980, at the age of 51 Shakuntala devi again beat the computer when she computed the multiplication of two 13-digit number in just 28 seconds.

Shakuntala Devi wrote a number of books like ‘Puzzles to puzzle you’, ‘Book of numbers’, ‘More puzzles to puzzle you’, ‘Figuring: The Joy of numbers’, ‘In the wonderland of numbers’, ‘Super Memory: It can be yours’, ‘ Mathability: Awaken the Mathn genius in your child’ and ‘Astrology for you’.
Many companies have used Shakuntala Devi puzzles during their interviewing process. Infosys is one of the companies that I have been in and it has used a lot of puzzles from the books of Shakuntala Devi for testing the analytical brain of freshers out of college

You get people like Shakuntala devi only once in many lifetimes. Respect to this mathematical maestro!!!

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