4/12/2024 0 Comments Shakuntala devi books on astrology![]() ![]() ![]() I remember practising these tricks for hours until I could do them too. Some of it I already knew but there were whole sections where she explained how to do tricks that I had seen done but which had baffled me such as calculating the day of the week for any date given to you or working out square and cube roots in your head. However in 1977, when I was fifteen, this book was published and it was written by somebody who, at least partly, earned her living from amazing feats of mental arithmetic, I had to get a copy, and this book is still on my shelves today. I’ll cover one or more of his books in a later blog. I started reading Martin Gardner’s section of Scientific American when I was eleven or twelve years old, I don’t claim to have understood all of it but each month my knowledge of recreational mathematics was stretched just that little bit more. ![]() As a child I was fascinated by mathematics, but especially by tricks and shortcuts that could be done. ![]()
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