Shakuntala Devi counts her blessings
Shakuntala Devi counts her blessings The ‘human computer’ had a variety of interests. Shakuntala Devi turned a remarkable talent into a remarkable career. Credit: Hetvee S Patel, via Wikimedia Commons Think of the boxy grey desktop computer that sat on your desk, or the massive grey tower computer under your desk, or the lightweight shiny tablet computer in your handbag, or even the smartphone computer in the palm of your hand. Now, consider Scottish-born Williamina Paton Fleming, who in the late 1800s was credited, according to Harvard Magazine, with discovering “10 novae, 59 gaseous n...
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