20-year-old Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash has become a talk of the town over his latest achievement of being bestowed with the title of 'fastest human calculator' for his mental calculation.
Prakash is a native of Hyderabad and he has drawn huge attention across the nation after winning the gold medal in the Mental Calculation World Championship conducted at Mind Sports Olympiad recently in London. Prakash was one of 30 participants who took part in the competition from 13 countries including Germany, France, Greece, Lebanon, the UK, and UAE.
They fought hard for the mental competition and Prakash nailed it by grabbing the gold medal with a huge margin as he was 65 points ahead of his co-contestant from Lebanon, who secured the second spot after Prakash.
By being conferred with the gold medal, Prakash had broken the record of 'Fastest Human Calculator' that was held previously by India's Shakuntala Devi and America's Scott Flansburg. Flansburg was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Fastest Human Calculator. Prakash has established a startup 'Exploring Infinities' which is working with the Telangana state government and the T-SAT network to create 700 hours of math content for classes 6 to 10.
After winning the global award, Prakash said that he wishes to build a community of mathematicians and human calculators. By citing that he doesn't like personal pride, Prakash asserted that his goal is to change the way maths is being taught and his aim is to produce mathematical geniuses from government schools in Telangana.
Prakash is a graduate of Maths from St. Stephens College in Delhi and previously, he has won the International Abacus Champion in 2013 and National Abacus Champion 2011 and 2012. According to the reports, the Mental Calculation World Championship is an annual competition that began in 1997 and it will be held for various disciplines for mental skills and mind sports. This was the first time that the competition has held online in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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