At three, I fell in love with numbers. It was sheer ecstasy for me to do sums and get the right answers. Numbers were toys with which I could play. Shakuntala Devi Read Quote
I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results. Shakuntala Devi Read Quote
If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes. Shakuntala Devi Read Quote
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, ‘How many of you love mathematics?’ and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher! Shakuntala Devi Read Quote
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. Shakuntala Devi Read Quote
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject. Shakuntala Devi Read Quote
I don’t even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don’t want to single myself out as someone up and above. Shakuntala Devi Read Quote
Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes. Shakuntala Devi Read Quote
