November 04

Shakuntala Devi was born on November 4, 1929, in Bangalore to a typical Kannada Brahmin family. Unlike the rest of her family, who were priests, her father worked in a circus as a tightrope walker, trapeze performer, lion tamer, and stage magician. Shakuntala Devi - commonly known as "the human computer" – was a mathematical genius and writer who established a place for herself in Indian history as a mathematical genius and writer, in a country where women in STEM research subjects are still underrepresented.
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