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 (mental calculation) what Usain Bolt is to running”. 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. He is the founder of ‘Bhanzu’, a math education startup that is on its way to eradicate math phobia globally. In 2022, he featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022 List for heading ‘Bhanzu’ in the Consumer Technology category.
Early life
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....
