Figuring: The Joy Of Numbers

Figuring: The Joy Of Numbers
Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9788122200386

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There is a range and richness to numbers. They can come alive, cease to be symbols written on a black board, and lead the reader into a world of intellectual adventure where calculations are thrilling. In Figuring: The Joy of Numbers, Shakuntala Devi dramatizes the endless fascination of numbers and their ability to amaze and entertain. She offers easy-to-learn short cuts on how to add long columns in your head, multiply, divide, and find square roots quickly, almost magically. Fractions, decimals, and compound interest become clear and easy to deal with. The author takes delight in working out huge problems mentally, and sometimes even faster than computers. In Figuring she shares her secrets with you.

Book Of Numbers

Book Of Numbers
Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9788122200065

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Shakuntala Devi, the Human Computer, explains and simplifies everything you always wanted to know about numbers but was difficult to understand. This book contains all we ever wanted to know about numbers. Divided in three parts, the first will tells you everything about numbers, the second some anecdotes related with numbers and mathematicians, and the third some important tables that will help you always.

Puzzles To Puzzle You

Puzzles To Puzzle You
Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9788122200140

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Discover the adventure and excitement of mathematical puzzles. Match your wits with the human computer. Sharpen your intellect, delight your friends and enjoy hours of purposeful entertainment. Mathematics is not always hard, mind-boggling stuff. It can also be simple, delightful and interesting. Many famous mathematicians are known to be devoted to peg jumping puzzles. It is perhaps this kind of play that leads to scientific discoveries. The celebrity author, Shakuntala Devi, is regarded as 'authentic heroine of the twentieth century'. She calculates faster than the fastest computer, is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and continues to amaze audiences around the world with her feats of calculation.

Secrets of Mental Math

Secrets of Mental Math
Author: Arthur Benjamin
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 030734746X

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These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers. Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and—maybe for the first time—make mathematics fun. Yes, even you can learn to do seemingly complex equations in your head; all you need to learn are a few tricks. You’ll be able to quickly multiply and divide triple digits, compute with fractions, and determine squares, cubes, and roots without blinking an eye. No matter what your age or current math ability, Secrets of Mental Math will allow you to perform fantastic feats of the mind effortlessly. This is the math they never taught you in school.

Super Memory

Super Memory
Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 8122205070

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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, not by attempting to teach some exhausting rote-memory techniques, but 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.

The Magic of Math

The Magic of Math
Author: Arthur Benjamin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0465054722

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"The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples--from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares--this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties behind those formulas and equations that once left your head spinning. You'll learn the key ideas of classic areas of mathematics like arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, but you'll also have fun fooling around with Fibonacci numbers, investigating infinity, and marveling over mathematical magic tricks that will make you look like a math genius!"--

More Puzzles

More Puzzles
Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2006-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9788122200485

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Here are over 300 tantalizing puzzles, brain teasers and riddles by one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the twentieth century, Shakuntala Devi, popularly known as the 'human computer'. The puzzles include every possible type of mathematical recreation, time and distance problems, age and money riddles, puzzles involving geometry and elementary algebra, and just plain straight thinking. Often entertaining, but always stimulating, the puzzles included in the book offer hours of fun and relaxation.

In the Wonderland of Numbers

In the Wonderland of Numbers
Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

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Come to an exciting journey into the Wonderland of Numbers. 'As for numbers, they hate nobody and nobody can afford to hate them,' says Neha's father, who is a supportive parent trying to re-instill confidence in his child. Apart from revealing the specialties of each individual number, from zero to nine, and little mathematical tricks, Shakuntala Devi has underscored another very important aspect. It is upto parents and teachers to ensure that children are initiated into a lifelong love affair with numbers. An engaging child, Neha, suddenly starts lagging in Maths when a new Maths teacher arrives and she starts converting her fear of the teacher into a terror of Maths. Matters touch the nadir when she scores a zero in a test. On the way home that day, she meets with an accident. While her parents and teachers suffer an anxious vigil till she regains consciousness, she travels to the Kingdom of Zero through her sub-conscious mind. In the Wonderland of Numbers is the story of Neha's adventures in the Kingdom of Zero.

Our Mathematical Universe

Our Mathematical Universe
Author: Max Tegmark
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307744256

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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist. Fascinating from first to last—this is a book that has already prompted the attention and admiration of some of the most prominent scientists and mathematicians.

Astrology for You

Astrology for You
Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 8122207073

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Astrology is not A complex science as it is 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, Nakshatra divisions and Vimshottari Dasa, Navamsas, etc. It is a complete book that leaves nothing to become an amateur astrologer.