Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mental calculator, astrologer, and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer".Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records.
Neelakanta Bhanu Prakash (born 13 October 1999) is a human calculator, YouTuber and entrepreneur from Hyderabad, India, and is titled as the "World's Fastest Human Calculator". [1] He won gold in the 2020 Mental Calculation World Championship at Mind Sports Olympiad 2020. He also holds 50 Limca records for his mathematical calculations. [2] [3] [4]
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 ...
Shakuntala Devi is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film tracing the life of mathematician and mental calculator Shakuntala Devi who was also known as the "human computer". [3]
Aaryan Shukla (born 2009/2010) is an Indian mental calculator and board member of the Global Mental Calculators Association. [1] Career
Human computers were used to compile 18th and 19th century Western European mathematical tables, for example those for trigonometry and logarithms.Although these tables were most often known by the names of the principal mathematician involved in the project, such tables were often in fact the work of an army of unknown and unsung computers.
Winner: Rhea Shah (India), 10 correct results in 135 seconds (each solved to eight significant figures), world cup record; Most Versatile Calculator (the best score for solving another 5 unknown "surprise tasks") Winner: Andreas Berger (Germany), 365/500; Granth Thakkar (India) won the title in the overall competition (combination of all 10 ...
Surat, Gujarat, India. Nationality: ... Mental calculator: Priyanshi Somani (born 16 November 1998) is the 2010 Mental Calculation World Cup winner. [1] Further reading