Neelakanta Bhanu Prakash (born 13 October 1999) is a human calculator, YouTuber and entrepreneur from Hyderabad, India, and is titled as the "World's Fastest Human Calculator".[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]
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| Born | October 13, 1999 Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | World's 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 | bhanzu |
He is the founder of 'Bhanzu', a math educational tech startup aiming to improve the mathematical skills of learners.
In 2022, he featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022 List for heading 'Bhanzu' in the Consumer Technology category.
Early life
editNeelakantha 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 to keep his mind active.[5] A mathematical whiz kid from early childhood, he began competing in numerous speed maths calculation competition and resulting in winning the championships starting at age five. 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 Speed Math Champion '13 and National Speed Math 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. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ "20-year old Hyderabad boy breaks Shakuntala Devi's record; becomes fastest human calculator". The Financial Express. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ Pandey, Manish (24 August 2020). "Meet the world's fastest human calculator". BBC News. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ Pandey, Ashish (25 August 2020). "Indian Maths prodigy Neelakantha Bhanu becomes the fastest human calculator in world". India Today. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ "How a child with a fractured skull grew up to become the 'world's fastest human calculator'". CNN World. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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