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Shakuntala Devi
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Indian writer and mental calculator (1929-2013)
OverviewAI-generated
Shakuntala Devi was a person associated with the genre devi. She was born on 1929-11-04 and died on 2013-04-21. Her area of association is listed as London.
The subject has five recorded works. She is referenced by 42 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 12 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- London
Discography
- Nobody2015
- Pound Cake2016
- Stroke2016
- Next To Me2017
- You & Me2017
- Trap Pop2020
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 16
- Total plays
- 21
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-Based Localization
· 2017 · cited 18,708x
- Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-Based Localization
· 2019 · cited 5,560x
- The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma
· 2013 · cited 4,495x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- CIDEr: Consensus-based image description evaluation
· 2015 · cited 3,384x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1929-11-04 ) 4 November 1929, Bangalore , Kingdom of Mysore , British India
- Died
- 21 April 2013 (2013-04-21) (aged 83), Bengaluru , Karnataka , India
- Other name
- Human Computer
- Occupations
- Author mental calculator astrologer
- Spouse
- Paritosh Banerji ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1979 )
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Encyclopedic overview
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. 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. Devi was a precocious child, and she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore without any formal education.
Devi strove to simplify numerical calculations for students. She wrote several books in her later years, including novels as well as texts about mathematics, puzzles, and astrology. She wrote the book The World of Homosexuals (1977), which is considered the first study of homosexuality in India. She saw homosexuality in a positive light and is considered a pioneer in the field.
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