“He Has Done India Proud”: Vice President On Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, global’s quickest human calculator, praised by means of many on social media
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, the ‘quickest human calculator’ was once these days praised by means of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu for profitable the first-ever gold medal on the Psychological Calculation Global Championship at Thoughts Sports activities Olympiad held in London lately. “He has carried out India proud. My best possible needs to him for all long term endeavours,” the Vice President’s place of work tweeted with the hashtag ‘Human Calculator’.
He has carried out India proud. My best possible needs to him for all long term endeavours. #HumanCalculator
— Vice President of India (@VPSecretariat) August 26, 2020
Many of us had been congratulating Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash since he hit headlines. Junior House Minister G Kishan Reddy wrote on social media, “Hearty congratulations to Mr. Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash from Hyderabad on profitable the first-ever gold for India in Psychological Calculation Global Championship at Thoughts Sports activities Olympiad and changing into the quickest human calculator on this planet.”
After profitable the contest, the 20-year-old pupil of Arithmetic from Delhi’s St Stephen’s School mentioned, “Beating 29 competition from 13 international locations, I received the gold medal with a transparent margin of 65 issues. The judges have been spellbound by means of my pace, they required me to accomplish extra calculations to verify my accuracy.”
The Thoughts Recreation Olympiad was once held nearly with 30 individuals from the United Kingdom, Germany, UAE, France, Greece and Lebanon. The mathematics match was once first held in 1998.
The ‘Mathemagician’ proudly went on to mention that he holds “4 global data and 50 Limca data for being the ‘quickest human calculator’ on this planet. My mind calculates sooner than the rate of a calculator. Breaking those data, as soon as held by means of Math professionals like Scott Flansburg and Shakuntala Devi, is an issue of nationwide satisfaction…”.
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash’s dream is to take away the concern of Maths in scholars. He believes “for any nation to broaden and thrive globally, numeracy is as necessary a talent as literacy.”
