On April 21, 2013, math prodigy, astrologer, and philanthropist Shakuntala Devi breathed her last at 83 in Bengaluru. The dailies were abuzz, grieving the loss of this math whiz, better known to the ...

The makers of Vidya Balan's Shakuntala Devi just dropped the first song from the film titled Pass Nahi Toh Fail Nahi, in which Vidya Balan tries to encourage her students to not be scared of ...

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 ...

A decades-old BBC interview of Indian mathematical prodigy Shakuntala Devi has resurfaced online, once again highlighting her exceptional ability to perform rapid mental calculations. Often referred ...

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.