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 ...

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 ...

Shakuntala Devi’s legend is immense. The Indian mathematician traveled the world with her one-woman show, showing off mental math skills that earned her the nickname “The Human Computer.” Given any ...

When she was three, Shakuntala Devi’s father noticed that she could memorize the numbers on cards and figure out card tricks. A trapeze artist, Devi’s father brought his daughter to the crowds to wow ...

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.