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	~~{{short description\|Indian mathematician and human calculator}}~~		'''Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash''' (born 13 October 1999) is a [[human calculator]] from India, and is titled as the "World's Fastest Human Calculator". [[BBC]] said "Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash is to math what [[Usain Bolt]] is to running".<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2020-08-24\|title=Aged 20 and the fastest human calculator in the world\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/newsbeat-53894352\|access-date=2020-08-24\|website=BBC\|language=en-US}}</ref> He won gold in the 2020 Mental Calculation World Championship at [[Mind Sports Olympiad]] 2020. He also holds 50 [[Limca Book of Records\|Limca records]] for his mathematical calculations.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2020-08-25\|title=20-year old Hyderabad boy breaks Shakuntala Devi’s record; becomes fastest human calculator\|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/20-year-old-hyderabad-boy-breaks-shakuntala-devis-record-becomes-fastest-human-calculator/2064585/\|access-date=2020-08-25\|website=The Financial Express\|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|last=Pandey\|first=Manish\|date=2020-08-24\|title=Meet the world's fastest human calculator\|language=en-GB\|work=BBC News\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53894352\|access-date=2020-08-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|last=Pandey\|first=Ashish\|date=25 August 2020\|title=Indian Maths prodigy Neelakantha Bhanu becomes the fastest human calculator in world\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/indian-maths-prodigy-neelakantha-bhanu-becomes-the-fastest-human-calculator-in-world-1714803-2020-08-25\|url-status=live\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2020-08-25\|website=India Today\|language=en}}</ref>
	'''Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash''' (born 13 October 1999 ~~in Hyderabad~~) is a [[human calculator]] from India, and is titled as the "World's Fastest Human Calculator". [[BBC]] said "Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash is to math what [[Usain Bolt]] is to running".<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2020-08-24\|title=Aged 20 and the fastest human calculator in the world\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/newsbeat-53894352\|access-date=2020-08-24\|website=BBC\|language=en-US}}</ref> He won gold in the 2020 Mental Calculation World Championship at [[Mind Sports Olympiad]] 2020. He also holds 50 [[Limca Book of Records\|Limca records]] for his mathematical calculations.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2020-08-25\|title=20-year old Hyderabad boy breaks Shakuntala Devi’s record; becomes fastest human calculator\|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/20-year-old-hyderabad-boy-breaks-shakuntala-devis-record-becomes-fastest-human-calculator/2064585/\|access-date=2020-08-25\|website=The Financial Express\|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|last=Pandey\|first=Manish\|date=2020-08-24\|title=Meet the world's fastest human calculator\|language=en-GB\|work=BBC News\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53894352\|access-date=2020-08-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|last=Pandey\|first=Ashish\|date=25 August 2020\|title=Indian Maths prodigy Neelakantha Bhanu becomes the fastest human calculator in world\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/indian-maths-prodigy-neelakantha-bhanu-becomes-the-fastest-human-calculator-in-world-1714803-2020-08-25\|url-status=live\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2020-08-25\|website=India Today\|language=en}}</ref> ~~He graduated from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] in 2020 with a BSc Honours degree in Mathematics. He is an alumnus of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School (Vidyashram) Hyderabad.~~

	He is the founder of 'Exploring Infinities', a math education ~~start up~~ that is on its way to make brain training a popular culture and eradicate math phobia globally.		He is the founder of 'Exploring Infinities', a math education startup that is on its way to make brain training a popular culture and eradicate math phobia globally.

			== Early life ==
			Neelakantha Bhanu was born to Srinivas Jonnalagadda and Hema Siva Parvathi in Eluru. In 2005, at the age of five, he met with a head injury that rendered him bedridden for an entire year when he picked up math and calculations.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2020-09-02\|title=How a child with a fractured skull grew up to become the 'world's fastest human calculator'\|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/01/world/fastest-human-calculator-intl-scil-hnk/index.html\|access-date=2020-09-02\|website=CNN World\|language=en-US}}</ref> A mathematical whiz kid from early childhood, since 5 years of age when he enrolled started competing in several competitions. Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, a mathematics graduate has bagged many gold medals and has world records for fast arithmetic calculations. He has also won the International Abacus Champion'13 and National Abacus Champion '11 & '12, and Math Genius Award in 2015. He completed his schooling at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School (Vidyashram) Hyderabad. He graduated from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] in 2020 with a BSc Honours degree in Mathematics.{{Citation needed\|date=June 2021}} He has also been a speaker at several TED talks.

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{{short description|Indian mathematician and human calculator}}
'''Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash''' (born 13 October 1999 in Hyderabad) is a [[human calculator]] from India, and is titled as the "World's Fastest Human Calculator". [[BBC]] said "Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash is to math what [[Usain Bolt]] is to running".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-24|title=Aged 20 and the fastest human calculator in the world|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/newsbeat-53894352|access-date=2020-08-24|website=BBC|language=en-US}}</ref> He won gold in the 2020 Mental Calculation World Championship at [[Mind Sports Olympiad]] 2020. He also holds 50 [[Limca Book of Records|Limca records]] for his mathematical calculations.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-25|title=20-year old Hyderabad boy breaks Shakuntala Devi’s record; becomes fastest human calculator|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/20-year-old-hyderabad-boy-breaks-shakuntala-devis-record-becomes-fastest-human-calculator/2064585/|access-date=2020-08-25|website=The Financial Express|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Pandey|first=Manish|date=2020-08-24|title=Meet the world's fastest human calculator|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53894352|access-date=2020-08-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pandey|first=Ashish|date=25 August 2020|title=Indian Maths prodigy Neelakantha Bhanu becomes the fastest human calculator in world|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/indian-maths-prodigy-neelakantha-bhanu-becomes-the-fastest-human-calculator-in-world-1714803-2020-08-25|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-25|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref> He graduated from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] in 2020 with a BSc Honours degree in Mathematics. He is an alumnus of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School (Vidyashram) Hyderabad.

He is the founder of 'Exploring Infinities', a math education start up that is on its way to make brain training a popular culture and eradicate math phobia globally.

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