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ABOUT SHAKUNTALA DEVI
Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on
November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India. Her calculating gifts
first demonstrated themselves while she was doing cardtricks
with her father when she was three. They report she "beat"
them by memorization of cards rather than by sleight of hand.
Shakuntala Devi was born in Bangalore, India to an orthodox
priestlyBrahmin family. At the age of three she manifested an extraordinary love for numbers and by the time she was five years old, Shakuntala became an expert in complex mental Arithmetic. With a divineskill in numbers from the age of three, she has been stunning the whole world with her uncanny skill in computing the most intricate problems mentally, even quicker than the highly
sophisticatedcomputers in the world.
By age six she demonstrated her calculation and memorization abilities at the University of Mysore. At the age of eight she performed her unique gift at the Annamalai Universityin Southern India and the then Vice Chancellor of the University Rt Hon. V.S. Srinivasa Shastriar P.C., CH, LX.D. called her a “living
wonder”.
Around the same time she performed in the OsmaniaUniversity in
Hyderabad and the Vizag University. Soon Shakuntala, who displayed her talents to gatherings of distinguished people all over India, came to be acclaimed as a Child Prodigy.
Problemsthat took learned men hours to solve, she could solve within seconds. While six years old, Shakuntala demonstrated her talents at the University of Mysore, Bangalore, to a large gathering of studentsand professors of the University. At that tender age she worked out the most complicated arithmetical calculations with lightening rapidity and scientific precision and kept the assembly spell-boundfor two hours
.
Still in her early ages, Shakuntala sailed to Europe in 1950. In London on the 5th of October, 1950, the BBC presented Shakuntala to the viewers of Great Britain. Shakuntala gave...
Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on
November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India. Her calculating gifts
first demonstrated themselves while she was doing cardtricks
with her father when she was three. They report she "beat"
them by memorization of cards rather than by sleight of hand.
Shakuntala Devi was born in Bangalore, India to an orthodox
priestlyBrahmin family. At the age of three she manifested an extraordinary love for numbers and by the time she was five years old, Shakuntala became an expert in complex mental Arithmetic. With a divineskill in numbers from the age of three, she has been stunning the whole world with her uncanny skill in computing the most intricate problems mentally, even quicker than the highly
sophisticatedcomputers in the world.
By age six she demonstrated her calculation and memorization abilities at the University of Mysore. At the age of eight she performed her unique gift at the Annamalai Universityin Southern India and the then Vice Chancellor of the University Rt Hon. V.S. Srinivasa Shastriar P.C., CH, LX.D. called her a “living
wonder”.
Around the same time she performed in the OsmaniaUniversity in
Hyderabad and the Vizag University. Soon Shakuntala, who displayed her talents to gatherings of distinguished people all over India, came to be acclaimed as a Child Prodigy.
Problemsthat took learned men hours to solve, she could solve within seconds. While six years old, Shakuntala demonstrated her talents at the University of Mysore, Bangalore, to a large gathering of studentsand professors of the University. At that tender age she worked out the most complicated arithmetical calculations with lightening rapidity and scientific precision and kept the assembly spell-boundfor two hours
.
Still in her early ages, Shakuntala sailed to Europe in 1950. In London on the 5th of October, 1950, the BBC presented Shakuntala to the viewers of Great Britain. Shakuntala gave...
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