Le 3 avril 2013, Devi est admise à l'hôpital de Bangalore pour des insuffisances respiratoires et rénales où elle décède 18 jours plus tard le 21 avril. Produced by Sony Pictures Networks Productions, the film streamed worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on 31 July 2020. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 10 août 2020 à 10:19. [24], Devi returned to India in the mid-1960s and married Paritosh Banerji,[25] an officer of the Indian Administrative Service from Kolkata. [21], The book, considered "pioneering",[22] features interviews with two young Indian homosexual men, a male couple in Canada seeking legal marriage, a temple priest who explains his views on homosexuality, and a review of the existing literature on homosexuality. At the age of 3, Shakuntala started exhibiting some advanced skills in numbers, and by the time she reached 5, she could calculate cube roots. Jensen tested her performance at several tasks, including the calculation of large numbers. She was 80. [6][3], Devi wrote a number of books in her later years, including novels as well as texts about mathematics, puzzles, and astrology. [26] They divorced in 1979 due to personal problems. The psychologist Jensen, who died in 2012, published his findings in the journal Intelligence in 1990. Within two weeks … So, what explains her calculating abilities? [2][3] Writer Steven Smith commented, "the result is so far superior to anything previously reported that it can only be described as unbelievable. One of the most comprehensive accounts is the report on the tests at University of California-Berkeley in 1988. Shakuntala Devi (en kannada : ಶಕುಂತಲಾ ದೇವಿ), née le 4 novembre 1929 à Bangalore[1] en Inde et morte le 21 avril 2013 (à 83 ans) dans cette même ville[2],[3], est une « calculatrice prodige ». She could not receive a formal education due to her family’s dire situation. Shakuntala a souvent expliqué qu'elle visualise directement le résultat des calculs qu'on lui soumet et attribue cette faculté à une inspiration divine. [6][4] Her answer 546,372,891 was confirmed by calculations done at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation, which took a longer time than for her to do the same. She was on a tour of Europe throughout 1950 and was in New York City in 1976. Biography: Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the “human computer “. She died in hospital on 21 April 2013. Her father discovered her ability to memorise numbers and took her on tour… [34], A film on her life titled Shakuntala Devi was announced in May 2019. [2][5][13] She started with writing short stories and murder mysteries, and had a keen interest in music. Over the following two weeks she suffered from heart and kidney complications. [2] She did this without any formal education. [26], In addition to her work as a mental calculator, Devi was a notable astrologer and an author of several books, including cookbooks and novels. [6][2][5] Her father left the circus and took her on road shows that displayed her ability at calculation. [10][7] Her father, C V Sundararaja Rao,[11] worked as a trapeze artist, lion tamer, tightrope walker and magician in a circus. AIDS, homophobia and the politics of sexual identity in India", "Get to know Shakuntala Devi, the woman known as the 'human computer, "Why Shakuntala's siblings gave up on maths", "Math Genius and Guinness Record Holder Shakuntala Devi Passes Away at Age 83", "She made learning maths as thrilling as magic", "Remembering Shakuntala Devi, India's 'human computer, "Sanya Malhotra to play Vidya Balan's daughter in Shakuntala", "R.I.P. [26] In 1980, she contested the Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate for Mumbai South and for Medak in Andhra Pradesh (now in Telangana). Ses prouesses se situent particulièrement dans le domaine des racines n-ièmes[6]. Le 18 juin 1980, elle effectuait mentalement la multiplication de deux nombres à 13 chiffres choisis au hasard par le Département d'Informatique de l'Imperial College de Londres : et donna le résultat en 28 secondes, mais il faut encore considérer que c'est à peu près le temps qu'il lui a fallu pour dicter la réponse (un nombre de 26 chiffres) à ses interlocuteurs (ce temps de 28 secondes est celui qu'elle donne toutefois sur son site web). "[17] In a 2009 interview, Devi recalled Indira Gandhi telling her "Shakuntala, remember I've got so many ambassadors all over the world but you're a very special ambassador because you're a roving ambassador, a mathematical ambassador, who can win friends for India and build up close relationship between country to country. Elle a écrit de nombreux livres sur la pédagogie des mathématiques, les casse-têtes mathématiques, l'astrologie et donnait des conférences aussi bien dans les médias que dans les universités à travers le monde. [6][2] She died in hospital on 21 April 2013. Dans la soirée, des centaines de personnes, dont des proches et admirateurs, sont venus assister aux rites funéraires célébrés dans la banlieue sud de Bangalore. De confession hindouiste, elle pratique également l'astrologie[7], discipline à laquelle elle a d'ailleurs consacré un livre. [6] Over the following two weeks she suffered from heart and kidney complications. [23] It ends with a call for decriminalization of homosexuality, and "full and complete acceptance—not tolerance and sympathy". She was 83 years old. Shakuntala Devi died on April 21, 2013, and this event left a significant impact on Anupama. [1][2][3][4][5] Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. « Le premier essai académique sur les homosexuels indiens (, Mathability: Awaken the Math Genius in Your Child, Vedic Math - Shakuntala Devi: A biography, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shakuntala_Devi&oldid=173701999, Article de Wikipédia avec notice d'autorité, Portail:Religions et croyances/Articles liés, Portail:Biographie/Articles liés/Sciences, Portail:Biographie/Articles liés/Religions et croyances, Portail:Biographie/Articles liés/Culture et arts, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. Examples of the problems presented to Devi included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 and the seventh root of 170,859,375. These numbers were picked at random by the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. [6][2][3][7] However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980 at Imperial College, London. Encore en 1977, elle calculait la racine 23e d'un nombre de 201 chiffres de tête. See "Tricks of Lightning Calculators", in, "Shakuntala Devi strove to simplify maths for students", "Shakuntala Devi, 'Human Computer' Who Bested the Machines, Dies at 83", "Speed of information processing in a calculating prodigy", "Obituary: India's 'human computer' Shakuntala Devi", "Globalizing queer? Her zodiac sign was Scorpio. [2][3], In 1944, Devi moved to London with her father. In April 2013, Devi was admitted to a hospital in Bangalore with severe respiratory problems. Devi was a precocious child and she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore without any formal education. Shakuntala Devi review: A Vidya Balan show. [31], In April 2013, Devi was admitted to a hospital in Bangalore with severe respiratory problems. [2] In 1988, she travelled to the US to have her abilities studied by Arthur Jensen, a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. [6][3] At the age of six she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore. Astounded researchers puzzled over the origins of her remarkable skill, but Devi herself maintained that anyone could become a … Following her mother’s death, Anupama left for London. [19], In 1977, she wrote The World of Homosexuals, the first published academic study[8] of homosexuality in India,[20] for which she was criticized. She wrote the book The World Of Homosexuals, which is considered the first study of homosexuality in India. Shakuntala Devi (en kannada : ಶಕತಲ ದವ), née le 4 novembre 1929 à Bangalore1 en Inde et morte le 21 avril 2013 (à 83 ans) dans cette même ville2,3, est une « calculatrice prodige ».