Rajan mahadevan biography

Rajan Srinivasan Mahadevan is an Indian mnemonist....

Mahadevan a nice and witty chap, went on to get his Master's degree in Clinical Psychology and currently serves as distinguished lecturer at the.

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Rajan Srinivasan Mahadevan is an Indian mnemonist.

As a young man, Rajan Mahadevan regularly amazed his friends in India with his exceptional numerical memory.

At 5 in his homeland of Mangalore, India, Mahadevan invented a memory game with license plate numbers to stay up with the adult guests as his.

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When I was studying engineering at MIT (Manipal), I came across a rather strange man who had a phenomenal memory particularly for numbers.

I met him first in 1982 at the hostel where his room was next to mine.

He regaled all and sundry with his amazing memory. He was particularly adept at remembering figures and incidents. He could remember numbers running into thousands of characters. He had an extremely vast collection of jokes and an encyclopedia on facts and figures for every major cricket match that had been played in the previous decade.

Rajan Srinivasan Mahadevan, a mnemonist by profession, started reciting all the 52 two-digit numbers which were thrown at him by the students of St Mary's.

We met and interacted only occasionally, but his room mate Allan who had been his roommate for a year became my room mate for the next 2 years. Through Allan I learnt a lot about the spectacular capabilities of memory and his failure in academics.

He would score only in single digits out of 100 marks in every subject in college.

As a result he gave up on engineering