Neelkantha Bhanu Prakash, a student of Mathematics at Delhi's St Stephen's College, holds the world record for being the 'fastest human calculator’. Neelkantha Bhanu Prakash, 20, from Hyderabad has won the first gold medal for India at the Mental Calculation World Championship at Mind Sports Olympiad held in London recently. The Mind Sport Olympiad was held virtually with 30 participants from the UK, Germany, UAE, France, Greece and Lebanon. The math event was first held in 1998. “This is the first time that India has won a gold medal. This is equivalent to any other Olympic event,” the Maths wizard said. His vision is to create ‘VISION Math’ labs and reach out to millions of children to make them start loving the subject. By winning gold at the championship, Bhanu has broken the records held previously by prominent faces like Scott Flansburg and Shakuntala Devi.
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