Mental mathematics and children’s authorship · INDIA
Mental-maths record holder (India Book of Records: youngest to solve 100 multiplication sums, 12 min 28 sec, confirmed 10 March 2022, aged 4) and author of three books by age six (Pink Dolphin; Planex; My Continent Asia); received the PMRBP 2024 (Art & Culture) aged six.
Born 19 March 2017 (India Book of Records); 6 at the award in January 2024
Chhattisgarh · India
BEHIND THE RESULT
Armaan Ubhrani comes from Torwa, in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. He started writing at the age of four, and by six he had published three books — Pink Dolphin, Planex and My Continent Asia. The Government of India’s award material describes him as the youngest author of a book series; a later official backgrounder calls the three books a trilogy. His first lessons were close to home: his mother Saina is a teacher who runs a play school in Bilaspur, and Armaan finished his kindergarten years in her classrooms.
His other gift is speed with numbers, which earned him the nickname “Google boy”. On 10 March 2022, just before his fifth birthday, Armaan solved 100 multiplication sums — two-digit and three-digit numbers multiplied by a single digit — in 12 minutes and 28 seconds, a feat the India Book of Records confirmed as its “youngest to solve 100 multiplication sums” record. On 22 January 2024, aged six, he received the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar in the Art and Culture category from President Droupadi Murmu at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi — one of 19 children honoured that year, and among the youngest of them.
If you could write a book about anything at all, what would your first book be about — and who would you want to read it? That is a question from us, not part of his record.
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Open the article edition →Mental-maths record holder (India Book of Records: youngest to solve 100 multiplication sums, 12 min 28 sec, confirmed 10 March 2022, aged 4) and author of three books by age six (Pink Dolphin; Planex; My Continent Asia); received the PMRBP 2024 (Art & Culture) aged six.
2024-01-22 · Supporting source ↗
ETV Bharat · Bilaspur report, 23 January 2024 ↗Regional news report
PIB · official PMRBP 2024 awardee list ↗Official award list
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