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Mental calculators are people with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation, such as multiplying large numbers or factoring large numbers. Some rare mental calculators are autistic savants, with a narrow area of great skill & poor mental development in other directions, but plenty of are people of normal mental development who have basically developed advanced calculating ability. A nice plenty of are also experienced scientists, linguists, writers, & so on.
Mental calculators were in great demand in research centers such as CERN before the advent of modern electronic calculators & computers. See, for example, the 1983 book The Great Mental Calculators, whose introduction was written by Hans Eberstark.
The world's best mental calculators are invited every years to compete for the Mental Calculation World Cup. On October 2nd, 2012, Naofumi Ogasawara of Japan succeeded Priyanshi Somani of India as the current world champion.
Michael O'Boyle, an American psychologist historicallyin the past working in Australia & now at New york Tech University, has recently used MRI scanning of blood flow in the work of mental operation in mathematical prodigies to display startling results. These math prodigies show increases in blood flow to parts of the brain responsible for mathematical operations in the work of a mental rotation task that are greater than the typical increases (see Cognitive Brain Research, October, 2005).
Contents [hide]
one Mental calculators from history
two Mental calculators in fiction
three Champion Mental Calculators
three.1 First Mental Calculation World Cup (Annaberg-Buchholz, 2004)
three.2 Second Mental Calculation World Cup (Gie�en, 2006)
three.3 Third Mental Calculation World Cup (Leipzig, 2008)
three.4 Fourth Mental Calculation World Cup (Magdeburg, 2010)
three.5 Fifth Mental Calculation World Cup (Gie�en, 2012)
three.6 MSO mental calculation gold medal winners
four See also
five Outside links
This article includes a list of references, related reading or outside links, but its sources stay not clear because it lacks inline citations. improve this article by introducing more exact citations. (August 2011)
Mental calculators are people with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation, such as multiplying large numbers or factoring large numbers. Some rare mental calculators are autistic savants, with a narrow area of great skill & poor mental development in other directions, but plenty of are people of normal mental development who have basically developed advanced calculating ability. A nice plenty of are also experienced scientists, linguists, writers, & so on.
Mental calculators were in great demand in research centers such as CERN before the advent of modern electronic calculators & computers. See, for example, the 1983 book The Great Mental Calculators, whose introduction was written by Hans Eberstark.
The world's best mental calculators are invited every years to compete for the Mental Calculation World Cup. On October 2nd, 2012, Naofumi Ogasawara of Japan succeeded Priyanshi Somani of India as the current world champion.
Michael O'Boyle, an American psychologist historicallyin the past working in Australia & now at New york Tech University, has recently used MRI scanning of blood flow in the work of mental operation in mathematical prodigies to display startling results. These math prodigies show increases in blood flow to parts of the brain responsible for mathematical operations in the work of a mental rotation task that are greater than the typical increases (see Cognitive Brain Research, October, 2005).
Contents [hide]
one Mental calculators from history
two Mental calculators in fiction
three Champion Mental Calculators
three.1 First Mental Calculation World Cup (Annaberg-Buchholz, 2004)
three.2 Second Mental Calculation World Cup (Gie�en, 2006)
three.3 Third Mental Calculation World Cup (Leipzig, 2008)
three.4 Fourth Mental Calculation World Cup (Magdeburg, 2010)
three.5 Fifth Mental Calculation World Cup (Gie�en, 2012)
three.6 MSO mental calculation gold medal winners
four See also
five Outside links
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