By speciality the professor is a neurosurgeon, and every day, in the direct meaning of the word, digs out people’s brains. Yet when he performed his first operations, he experienced genuine joy.
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“I had the impression that I was coming into contact with something extremely secret and cryptic,” recalls Slusarczyk. “But I am now convinced that the brain is nature’s greatest creation. And I think that a person’s soul is located in their brain, not their heart. It doesn’t contradict what I’m trying to prove. Our possibilities are unlimited.”
And after all he has proved it.
Andrey publicly demonstrated that he remembers “pi” to a million decimal places. That was a new world record. Andrey exceeded the previous record, held by 59-year old Tibi Akiri Haraguchi from Japan, who had memorized 83,431 figures for pi, by almost 100 times over. The record came at the second attempt. He says it took him 6 days to memorize a million figures from a book of 250 pages.
For his second record, Slusarczyk proved that he can memorize numbers quicker than anyone else in the world. In 2 minutes he can fix 5100 figures in his mind. Both achievements are entered in the Ukrainian Book of Records, and have already been declared for entry into the Guinness Book of Records.
The professor just wants one thing to come out of all these achievements – to interest people, and awaken a desire in them to develop their memory. Slusarczyk has even devised a method allowing people to learn to memorize large volumes of information.
“It could be numbers, texts, photographs, sounds. The process of memorization is taking place continuously in our brains. The task involves dragging out the necessary fragment of memory from the depths of our brain. When I need to remember something, I concentrate in a specific way: I close my eyes and visualize images – the pages of a text, a row of numbers, pictures. In my time I have been to demonstration operations carried out by master neurosurgeons. And I memorized each movement in such a way that I could reproduce them almost immediately.”
The latest task for Slusarczyk is to memorize not one, but five million figures. He is also planning to set two more records: solving mathematical problems quicker than a computer, and memorizing any text, simultaneously counting the number of letters in it, including vowels and consonants separately. This is nothing, Andrey has already demonstrated this to MK readers.
Eva Merkacheva for Moskovskiy Komsomolets
Translated by James Platt
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