Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash (born 13 October 1999) is a human calculator from India. He won gold in the 2020 Mental Calculation World Championship at Mind Sports Olympiad making him the world's fastest human calculator. He holds 50 Limca records for his mathematical calculations.[1][2][3]He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 2020 with a BSc Honours degree in Mathematics. He is an alumni of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School (Vidyashram) Hyderabad.
Prakash is the founder of 'Exploring Infinities', an educational start up that seeks to impart mathematics lessons to school students across India, in regional languages and make brain training a popular culture.
References
- ^ "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.
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