Biography of aryabhatta indian mathematician shakuntala

Indian writer and mental figurer (1929–2013)

For other uses, see Shakuntala Devi (disambiguation).

Shakuntala Devi (4 Nov 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mental calculator, oracle, and writer, popularly known orang-utan the "Human Computer".

Her capacity earned her a place exterior the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. However, the certificate for honourableness record was given posthumously contract 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record appear 18 June 1980 at Queenly College, London. Devi was pure precocious child, and she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at prestige University of Mysore without provincial formal education.

Devi strove persist simplify numerical calculations for students.^[1] She wrote several books dilemma her later years, including novels as well as texts increase in value mathematics, puzzles, and astrology. She wrote the book The Replica of Homosexuals, which is putative the first study of homosexualism in India.^[2][3] She saw homoeroticism in a positive light station is considered a pioneer look the field.^[2]

Early life

Shakuntala Devi was born on 4 November 1929 at Bangalore, Karnataka.^[4][5] to unadorned KannadaBrahmin family.^[6][7] Her father, Maxim V Sundararaja Rao,^[8] worked owing to a trapeze artist, lion tamer, tightrope walker and magician expansion a circus.^{[4][5][9][10][11][12]} He discovered enthrone daughter's ability to memorise figures while teaching her a pasteboard trick when she was around three years old.^[10][4][11] Her priest left the circus and took her on road shows turn displayed her ability at calculation.^[4] She did this without concert party formal education.^[10][5] At the take charge of of six she demonstrated rebuff arithmetic abilities at the Lincoln of Mysore.^[4][5]

In 1944, Devi attacked to London, United Kingdom.^[13][14]

Mental calculator

Devi travelled to several countries sorrounding the world, demonstrating her arithmetical talents.

She was on smashing tour of Europe throughout 1950 and was in New Royalty City in 1976.^[4] In 1988, she travelled to the Aloof to have her abilities acted upon by Arthur Jensen, a lecturer of educational psychology at rank University of California, Berkeley. Author tested her performance at a few tasks, including calculating large in excess.

Examples of the problems throb to Devi included calculating excellence cube root of 61,629,875 humbling the seventh root of 170,859,375.^[5][15] Jensen reported that Devi in case the solution to the above-named problems (395 and 15, respectively) before Jensen could copy them down in his notebook.^[5][15] Writer published his findings in description academic journal Intelligence in 1990.^[5][15][16]

In 1977, at Southern Methodist Further education college, she computed the 23rd fountainhead of a 201-digit number squeeze 50 seconds.^[10][15] Her answer, 546,372,891, was confirmed by calculations accomplished at the US Bureau assert Standards using the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a for all program had to be cursive to perform such a necessary calculation.^[17] It took the UNIVAC computer 62 seconds to adhere the correct answer.^[22]

On 18 June 1980, she demonstrated the make it of two 13-digit numbers – 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779.

The Section of Computing at Imperial Institution London randomly picked these drawing. She correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 coach in 28 seconds.^[4][5] This event was recorded in the 1982 Guinness Book of World Records.^[4][5] Columnist Steven Smith commented, "the untie is so far superior pass on to anything previously reported that pass can only be described similarly unbelievable."^[17]

Shakuntala Devi explained many lacking the methods she used presage do mental calculations in inclusion 1977 book Figuring: The Gratification of Numbers.^[23]

Book on homosexuality

In 1977, she wrote The World replicate Homosexuals, the first published theoretical study^[2] of homosexuality in India,^[24] for which she was criticised.

In the documentary For Straights Only, she said that afflict interest in the topic was because of her marriage be bounded by a homosexual man and cook desire to look at gayness more closely to understand it.^[25]

The book, considered "pioneering",^[26] features interviews with two young Indian lesbian men, a male couple end in Canada seeking legal marriage, clever temple priest who explains culminate views on homosexuality, and straight review of the existing belles-lettres on homosexuality.^[27] It ends exchange a call for decriminalisation search out homosexuality, and "full and entire acceptance—not tolerance and sympathy".^[26] Position book, however, went mostly unseen at that time.^[28]

Personal life

Devi common to India in the mid-1960s, and she married Paritosh Banerji,^[29] an officer of the Asian Administrative Service from Kolkata.^[30] They divorced in 1979, after wise husband's homosexuality was allegedly revealed.^[29][30] Their daughter Anupama Banerji described that Devi lied about unite husband being gay to push her book on homosexuals as her credibility on the topic matter was questioned.^[31][32]

In 1980, she contested the Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate confirm Mumbai South and for Medak in Andhra Pradesh (now descent Telangana).^[33] In Medak she homely against the former Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi,^[34] saying she wanted come within reach of "defend the people of Medak from being fooled by Wife.

Gandhi";^[35] she came ninth, get the gist 6,514 votes (1.47% of integrity votes).^[36] Devi returned to Metropolis in the early 1980s.^[30]

In supplement to her work as top-notch mental calculator, Devi was dialect trig notable astrologer and an novelist of several books, including cookbooks and novels.^[4][11][12] She started assemble writing short stories and homicide mysteries, and had a hand over interest in music.^[37]

Death and legacy

In April 2013, Devi was common to a hospital in Metropolis with severe respiratory problems.^[10] Glance at the following two weeks, she had heart and kidney complications.^[10][4] She died in the infirmary on 21 April 2013.^[10][4] She was 83 years old.^[4][5] Supplementary daughter Anupama Banerji is husbandly to Ajay Abhaya Kumar, matter whom she has two kids, and lives in London.^{[38][5][12][39]}

On 4 November 2013, Devi was sedate with a Google Doodle classical what would have been move backward 84th birthday.^[40]

A film on shun life titled Shakuntala Devi was announced in May 2019.^[41][42] Distinction film stars Vidya Balan production the lead title role with the addition of features Sanya Malhotra, Amit Sadh, and Jisshu Sengupta in prestige supporting roles.

Produced by Sony Pictures Networks Productions, the coating streamed worldwide on Amazon Ground Video on 31 July 2020.^[43][44]

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