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This is a list of notable people with exceptional mental calculating abilities, usually known as "mental calculators" or "calculating prodigies". Some mental calculators are able to calculate square roots, logarithms, sines, and calendrical dates, determine whether a number is prime or not, or factorize numbers; others' calculation skills are limited to only the basic operations of arithmetic. For some, the use of their calculation skills served them in their professional life, including engineers, mathematicians, and physicists; others have mostly used their for performing feats, and still others had little practical use of their skill.
List
- Jedediah Buxton (1707–1772)[1]
- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)
- Thomas Fuller (1710–1790)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855)
- Zerah Colburn (1804–1839)[2]
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865)
- George Parker Bidder (1806–1878)
- Daniel McCartney (1817–1887)
- Zacharias Dase (1824–1861)
- Henri Mondeux (1826–1861)
- Johann Jakob Winkler (1831–1893)
- Charles Grandermange (1834–1870)
- Truman Henry Safford (1836–1901)
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
- Jacques Inaudi (1867–1950)
- Gottfried Rückle (1879–1929)
- Arthur F. Griffith (1880–1911)
- Rechen-August (1882–1928)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920)
- Jakow Trachtenberg (1888–1951)
- Alexander Aitken (1895–1967) was a distinguished New Zealand mathematician. His calculating ability was the subject of a 1962 article by psychologist Ian M.L. Hunter in the British Journal of Psychology.[3]
- Salo Finkelstein (1897–?)
- John von Neumann (1903–1957)
- Willem Klein (1912–1986)
- Maurice Dagbert (1913–2000)[4]
- Paul Erdős (1913–1996)
- Willis Dysart (1923–2011)
- Hans Eberstark (1929–2001)
- Shakuntala Devi (1929–2013)
- Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
- Igor Shelushkov (1946–?)
- Jerry Newport (1948–2023)
- Ireneo Bughao (1957–)
- Mike Byster (1959–)
- Scott Flansburg (1963–)
- George Lane (1964-)
- Gert Mittring (1966–)
- Jan van Koningsveld (1969–)
- Robert Fountain (1969–)
- Alberto Coto García (1970–)
- Rüdiger Gamm (1971–)
- Jorge Arturo Mendoza Huertas (1971–)
- Ben Pridmore (1976–)
- Amit Garg
- Daniel Tammet (1979–)
- Alexis Lemaire (1980–)
- Yusnier Viera (1982–)
- Anne-Marie Imafidon (1990–)
- Priyanshi Somani (1998–)
- Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash (1999–)
- Aaryan Nitin Shukla (2010–)
References
- ^ Smith 1983, pp. 169–197.
- ^ Smith 1983, pp. 181–210.
- ^ Hunter, Ian M.L. (1962). "An exceptional talent for calculative thinking". British Journal of Psychology. 53: 243–258.
- ^ Smith 1983, pp. 299–304.
- Smith, Steven Bradley (1983). The Great Mental Calculators: The Psychology, Methods and Lives of Calculating Prodigies, Past and Present. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231056403.