Ms. Shakuntala Devi was born in 1939 in Bangalore, India and was a mathematical genius known as the "human computer." By age 6, she was displaying her mathematical prowess by solving complex problems quickly. She set world records by solving complex math problems at incredibly fast speeds that were faster than computers. Some of her achievements include answering the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds and multiplying two 13-digit numbers in 28 seconds. She received several awards recognizing her talents, including being listed in the 1995 Guinness Book of World Records. She believed that mathematics was all around us in everyday life and that children dread it due to a wrong approach in how it is taught.