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Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash | |
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| Born | October 13, 1999 India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | Fastest Human Calculator |
| Education | St. Stephen's College, Delhi (BSc Honours, Mathematics, 2020) |
| Awards | Gold Medalist, Mental Calculation World Championship, Mind Sports Olympiad, Limca Book of Records 2015, 2016 and India's Youth Icon 2020 |
| Website | neelakanthabhanu |
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".[1] He won gold in the 2020 Mental Calculation World Championship at Mind Sports Olympiad 2020. He also holds 50 Limca records for his mathematical calculations.[2][3][4]
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[edit]
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.[5] 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] He has also been a speaker at several TED talks.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Aged 20 and the fastest human calculator in the world". BBC. 2020-08-24. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
- ↑ "20-year old Hyderabad boy breaks Shakuntala Devi's record; becomes fastest human calculator". The Financial Express. 2020-08-25. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
- ↑ Pandey, Manish (2020-08-24). "Meet the world's fastest human calculator". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
- ↑ Pandey, Ashish (25 August 2020). "Indian Maths prodigy Neelakantha Bhanu becomes the fastest human calculator in world". India Today. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "How a child with a fractured skull grew up to become the 'world's fastest human calculator'". CNN World. 2020-09-02. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
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