Shakuntala Devi

Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 - 21 April 2013) ialah seorang penulis dan kalkulator mental India, yang dikenali sebagai "komputer manusia". Bakatnya memperoleh tempat di edisi 1982 The Guinness Book of World Records.    

Shakuntala menulis beberapa buku pada tahun-tahun kemudiannya, termasuk novel serta teks tentang matematik, teka-teki, dan astrologi. Beliau menulis buku The World of Homosexuals, yang dianggap sebagai kajian pertama homoseksual di India.: "The first academic book on Indian homosexuals appeared in 1977 (The World of Homosexuals) written by Shakuntala Devi, the mathematics wiz kid who was internationally known as the human computer. This book treated homosexuality in a positive light and reviewed the socio-cultural and legal situation of homosexuality in India and contrasted that with the gay liberation movement then taking place in the USA." Beliau memperlakukan homoseksual dalam cahaya positif dan dianggap sebagai perintis di lapangan.  

 Karya terpilih 
Astrology for You (New Delhi: Orient, 2005). 
Book of Numbers (New Delhi: Orient, 2006). 
Figuring: The Joy of Numbers (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), , 
In the Wonderland of Numbers (New Delhi: Orient, 2006). 
Mathability: Awaken the Math Genius in Your Child (New Delhi: Orient, 2005). 
More Puzzles to Puzzle You (New Delhi: Orient, 2006). 
Perfect Murder (New Delhi: Orient, 1976), 
Puzzles to Puzzle You (New Delhi: Orient, 2005). 
Super Memory: It Can Be Yours (New Delhi: Orient, 2011). ; (Sydney: New Holland, 2012). , 
The World of Homosexuals (Vikas Publishing House, 1977), : "In her 1977 book, mathematician Shakuntala Devi interviewed..."

Adaptasi
Pada Mei 2019, ia telah diumumkan bahawa sebuah filem berdasarkan daripada Shakuntala Devi akan diterbitkan dengan Vidya Balan memegang watak utama, dijangka akan dikeluarkan pada musim panas 2020.

 Rujukan 

 Pautan luar 
 Chips no match to grey cells: Shakuntala Devi Times of India
 Interview with Know Your Star 

Kategori:Kematian 2013
Kategori:Kelahiran 1929
Kategori:Pekerja sosial India