During the party, Rajan wandered to a parking lot and committed the license plate numbers of every guest's car for recitation later.
[citation needed] In 1977, after losing interest in engineering, Mahadevan set to memorize substantial parts of pi.
[1] This secured him a place in the 1984 Guinness Book of World Records, and he has been featured on Larry King Live and Reader's Digest.
[citation needed] Although Mahadevan is adept at remembering numbers, he nevertheless displays only an average memory when it comes to prose passages or geometric shapes.
[3] Mahadevan holds the position of Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, where he teaches courses in learning and thinking as well as cognitive psychology.