A collection of numerical and mathematical curiosities and tricks with numbers, by the world's fastest (according to the "Guinness Book of Records) human calculator. A mathematical prodigy since the age of three, the author travels the world giving exhibitions of her powers.

Figuring: The joy of numbers

Science & Math

Shakuntala, Devi

Mathematics

Harper&Row

Figuring is good news for anyone who's ever grappled with multiplication tables or chewed away at a pencil through dreary maths lessons. Shakuntala Devi believes that figures are fun. Her message is simple: figures, like words, have a life of their own-just learn to lose your fear of them and you'll soon find that you can make them work for you, often in strange and exciting ways that you'd never have thought possible.

FIGURING: THE JOY OF NUMBERS (CORONET BOOKS)

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Awaken the Genius in Your Child: A Practical Guide for Parents

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Vega Books*

This is an accessible, common sense approach to how you can develop your child's creative and intellectual potential to its fullest extent. The author, Shakuntala Devi, a mathematical genius, suggests how to build a constructive, fun and supportive learning environment for children from infancy through elementary school. She guides you through methods designed to discover, explore and bring out natural abilities.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Day, Jennifer

Psychology & Counseling

Element Books Ltd.

We can't live without numbers. We need them in our daily chores, big and small. But we carry in us a certain fear of numbers and are never confident about using them. Shakuntala Devi, the internationally famous Mathematical wizard, makes it easy for us- and interesting.This book contains all we always wanted to know about numbers but was difficult to understand, and which was nowhere available. Divided into three parts, the first will tell you everything about numbers, the second some Anecdotes related with numbers and mathematicians, and the third a few important tables that will always help you.Shakuntala Devi popularly known as "the human computer." is a world famous mathematical prodigy who continues to out compute the most sophisticated computers. She took only fifty seconds to calculate the twenty-third root of a 201 digit number. To verify her answer, a Computer in Washington programmed with over 13,000 instructions took ten seconds longer. Shakuntala Devi firmly believes that Mathematics can be great fun for everybody.

The Book of Numbers

Reference

Educa Books

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More Puzzles to Puzzle You

Orient Publishing

Astrology is not a complex science as it often made out to be and, in the hands of the world-famous 'human computer' Shakuntala Devi, it becomes yet simpler and easier to understand and practise. The present book discusses zodiacs, planets, asterisms, the rising signs, Bhavas, Yogas, Dasas and their effects and transits. It enables the reader to cast a horoscope, and also read one. There are tables of correction for various cities and for sidereal time. It is a complete book that leaves nothing to become an amateur astrologer.

Astrology for You

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

ORIENT PAPERBACKS

This is one of those rare books that can help all of us with something that is both troublesome and worrisome - our memory. It does this with ease in 12 easy and effortlessly smooth steps. Shakuntala Devi's down-to-earth writing and encouraging step-by-step approach puts super memory in reach of everyone. As she says, 'Take my word. You can start applying my memory-enhancing techniques immediately, right now. Before you will realize, applying my methods and strategies will become your second nature'. Shakuntala Devi has been honing and teaching her memory improvement techniques for more than 40 years. "Super Memory" is the result of her life's work, specially tailored to our needs as we age, and encompassing all of the many ways we can use a better memory every day.

Super Memory: It Can be Yours

Employment of Labour and Rural Development

Sarup & Sons

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