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Robert Fountain (born in 1969) is a British mental calculator. He won the first Mental Calculation World Cup in 2004 and the second Mental Calculation World Cup in 2006. [1] [2] [3] In 1999 he was recognised by the Mind Sports Organisation as the first Grandmaster of Mental Calculation. Fountain was inspired to take up mental calculation as a ...
Willis Nelson Dysart (15 March 1923, in Omega, Georgia – 8 November 2011) [1] was an American mental calculator. His talent for arithmetic emerged at the age of three after his mother taught him to count. He quit school in the third grade (age 9) and pursued a career as a lightning calculator. [2] [3] [4] [5]
A mental calculator or human calculator is a person with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation (such as adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing large numbers). In 2005, a group of researchers led by Michael W. O'Boyle, an American psychologist previously working in Australia and now at Texas Tech University , has used MRI ...
Mental calculation consists of arithmetical calculations using only the human brain, with no help from any supplies (such as pencil and paper) or devices such as a calculator. People may use mental calculation when computing tools are not available, when it is faster than other means of calculation (such as conventional educational institution ...
Alexander C. Aitken FRS FRSE FRSL FRSNZ Born (1895-04-01) 1 April 1895 Dunedin, New Zealand Died 3 November 1967 (1967-11-03) (aged 72) Edinburgh, Scotland Nationality New Zealander Alma mater University of Edinburgh University of Otago Known for Aitken's array Aitken's delta-squared process Aitken interpolation Spouse Winifred Betts Awards Fellow of the Royal Society Scientific career Fields ...
Zerah Colburn (September 1, 1804 – March 2, 1839) [1] [2] [3] was an American child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. [ 4 ] Biography
Scott Flansburg (born December 28, 1963) is an American dubbed "The Human Calculator" and listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for speed of mental calculation.He is the annual host and ambassador for The National Counting Bee, a math educator, and media personality.
George Lane (born 1964) is a British mental calculator and author. He is a five-time gold medalist in the Mental Calculations event at the annual Mind Sports Olympiad , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and is one of only five Grandmasters of Mental Calculation, [ 3 ] as recognised by the Mind Sports Organisation .