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Ritchiee:
NO,CHIKE OBI FAILED THE MATH...IT IS CALLED FALSE PROOF....

In 1997, Obi claimed to have found an elementary proof to Fermat’s Last Theorem. This work was carried out at his Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies in Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria and published in Algebras, Groups and Geometries.[1][2][3] A review of this proof published in Mathematical Reviews that Obi's proof is a previously-known false proof.[4][5] Fermat’s Last Theorem had already been solved in 1994 by Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chike_Obi

Godprotectigbos:
. Chai

Godprotectigbos:
Xup ...my love


How was ur night....I have been waiting for u since

Ritchiee:
All these your fake story screenshots with lies ehn

Go read his history here...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chike_Edozien

And Chike Obi did not solve FERMAT ....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chike_Obi

blueskies:
Why ar u using two monikers u dis annonymous person. I dnt even know if u'r male or female. Your inability to stick to one username says a lot, like d oda one too anambra Ist or something. Lol. You'r guys ar jst beating about d bush, with repititions upon repititions dat doesnt hold water, an outsider reading these posts wil know d ones tryin to catch up in this debate Its not a bad thing if u loose a debate, u can alwys come back some other tym, but repeating wat u'v said a thousand tyms and posting pictures over and over again doesn't prove anything. It jst proves how weak and unintelligent u guys are in cognitive and factual point debate. Your oponents av actually beaten u guys hands-down with proves and real points like dey'v done in similar topics. The rest u guys are doin is makin empty and unintelligent noise, well I know u'r trying to 'protect' ur people lyk ur username says but you can alwys come back nxt tym ok, dats if u av real solid points and facts like d oponents alwys have.

Swahili0:
which emotion

Swahili0:


grammy award

They claim they have more SMEs yet Oyo has more SMEs than all SE states.


http://nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/SMEDAN%202013_Selected%20Tables.pdf

Often I am asked the questions:

1. Is [or was] there a Black Gauss?

2. Should a Black Mathematician have been awarded the Fields Medal?

3. Who is [or was] the most important Black Mathematician?

4. Who are the greatest Black Mathematicians?

5. Who are the young mathematicians whose careers exhibit extraordinary promise?

I believe all but the last two questions to be foolish. However, I hope to address these questions on this web page - in reverse order. For a history of African Americans in science research read Kenneth R. Mannings article, "Can History Predict the Future?" For a description of Blacks in Mathematics Research see Research Mathematicians of the African Diaspora. As usual, underlined words are hyperlinks in this website to more information on the individuals below.
 
CONTENTS

Who are the young mathematicians whose careers exhibit extraordinary promise?

Mathematicians of the 1990s

Mathematicians of the 1980s

Who are the greatest Black Mathematicians?

Great Black Mathematicians of the 1970s & 1960s

The Masters

 


 
5. Who are the young mathematicians whose careers exhibit extraordinary promise?

Mathematicians of the 21st Century

I had anticipated delaying this section until 2007 and young folks had begun to publish. However, as a winner of the AMU/ICMS 2003 Young African in Mathematics Medals, one individual has changed my mind.
Oguntuase: Currently in Italy, Nigerian born and soley Nigerian trained, James Adedayo Oguntuase earned his Ph.D. in 2001, but has published 18 papers in mathematics since 1998. This promises to be a stelar career.
 
Mathematicians of the 1990s:

Seven mathematicians of the 1990s, Adebisi Agboola, Jonathan Farley, Wilfrid Gangbo, Abba Gumel, Trachette Jackson, Katherine Okikiolu, and Arlie Petters show extraordinary promise, "should be" (but are not necessarily) located at the very best institutions, and may be the Fields medal candidates of the future.






Petters: Belize born American citizen Arlie Petters, the most senior of the group is a member of Duke University's Bass Fellows. He is Full Professor of Mathematics and of Physics (their first tenured Black professor in the sciences - congratulations Duke). He is chiefly interested in the mathematical theory of gravitational lensing and related areas (differential geometry, singularity theory, general relativity, Astrophysics). Though Petters received his Ph.D. about ten years ago, he has published 30 papers and a book, chiefly in the area Gravitational Lensing. Petters's book on Gravitational Lensing is considered a tour de force in mathematical physics. In 1998, Petters was awarded the most prestigious award for "young" mathematicians, the three year Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2002, he was recipient of the first Blackwell-Tapia Prize.
K. Okikiolu: Born to Nigerian and British parents, but educated in the U.S., Katherine Okikiolu (was once on Princeton's faculty) received special distinction in 1997 when she was the first Black to win a Sloan Research Fellowship. Later in 1997, she won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers for "Innovative research in geometric analysis, particularly the determinant of the Laplacian under smooth perturbations, and developing student workshops and mathematics curricula for inner-city children." This particular award is worth $500,000 and is only granted 60 scientists and engineers in the U.S. per year. Okikiolu's work on elliptical differential operators is considered a major contribution, going well beyond what experts had considered feasible, given the current state of knowledge. Her 2001 publication Critical metrics for the determinant of the Laplacian in odd dimensions in the Annals of Mathematics, is receiving high acclaim. She is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego.
Farley: Born in an extremely successful academic family of Rochester, New York, Jonathan Farley, graduated second in his class with an A.B. from Harvard University and obtained a mathematics Ph.D. from Oxford University where he was awarded the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson Prize for his research. During a two year visit to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute [MSRI] in 1996, Farley solved very important old problems in the Theory of Ordered Sets. He also works in Lattice Theory. He is currently publishing at an average of more than three papers a year, and in 2003 was a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University in England. Currently is Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Massachusettes Institute of Technology.
Gangbo: In just nine years from a Ph.D. to a Full Professor - this is incredible. Wilfrid Gangbo was born in Benin and in 1992 earned a Ph.D. from Swiss Federale Institute of Technology. Among his twelve papers is his 1996 The geometry of optimal transportation remains the single publication by a Black in the Mittag-Leffler Institute's Acta Mathematica, one of the world's strongest mathematics journals. In 2001 he was appointed Full Professor by Georgia Institute of Technology.
Agboola: In mathematics, one does not always know of young persons working in fields outside their own, and it is a great honor to the individual if the case is otherwise. Adebisi Agboola's work in Number Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry has been mentioned to me as very good by Kevin Corlette and two of my non-Black colleagues whose area of research is mutually exclusive with Agboola, Corlette, and each other. Agboola is Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Barbara
Gumel: Born in Nigeria, Ph.D. in England. Abba Gumel is an extremely prolific in the areas Mathematical Biology, Non-linear Dynamical Systems, and Computational Mathematics. Currently he is a Full Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
Jackson: American Trachette Jackson was a mathematics major at Arizona State in Tempe. Four years later she earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical Biology. Five years later she had ten articles under her belt and a Sloan Fellowship. Currently, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Johnson: British born Mathematical Physicist Clifford V. Johnson has over 60 publications since his 1992 Ph.D. Since that time he has immersed himself within String Theory (also see Sylvester James Gates) with papers and books. He is currently on leave at USC.
 
Great Mathematicians of the 1980s:

This is a group of mathematicians, nearing or just past Fields medalist years (before the age of 40), whose careers are very strong, and we expect them to have careers stronger than many of those who came before. They are Idris Assani, Johnny Brown, Nathaniel Dean, Carl Graham, Overtoun Jenda, and William Massey. There are a few more Mathematicians who could be mentioned here.





Massey: During Princeton University's inclusive period, William Massey enrolled and obtained a B.S. in Mathematics. From there he went to Stanford University for the Ph.D. and to industry, but his location in the Mathematics Department of Lucent Technologies has given him the opportunity to publish an average of 2.5 papers a year. In addition to the application of many papers in Queueing Theory and Stochastic Processes to problems in the Modelling of Telecommunication Systems, Massey, most importantly, has been involved with the mentoring African American students of Mathematics. Those who pay attention do very well; one of these is Arlie Petters (see young mathematicians above). Massey is a co-founder of CAARMS, the annual Conference for African Americans Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences. In 2001, Massey became the first tenured African American Mathematician at an Ivy League Univrsity. He is Full Professor in Princeton University's department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

EternalTruths:
You guys are the major reason why SW people will always lose on Nairaland and never learn

The Op pointed out the socialist mindset of your people as a major economic flaw. Rather than try to prove to the world that Yorubas are
1) not socialist minded or
2) they are socialist minded because of some good reasons citing examples

You guys just went on the abusive attack against the Igbos for an article written by an Urhobo.

You guys fail to realize that it is not your abuse but factual points that convinces people.

Look at posting pics of a state(Anambra) that operates a successful capitalist system

Even Imo state led by a Socialist traitor called Okorocha has rendered the state worthless while his counterpart Ebonyi is doing fine because of his capitalist orientation

The late Sam Mbakwe a capitalist to the core, lifted old Imo out of the Ashes of War

If Yorubas must survive, the orientation of free things by the government must be eradicated

Rather than give the people fish, give them fishnets.

God never created men to be fed but to toil and feed themselves even before the fall of Adam.

Godprotectigbo2:
. I don't do mmm

betterABIAstate:
when frustration makes you type in bad English, i hail your tomentor

betterABIAstate:
how do you expexct twistaray to sleep tonight after this bashing?you want him to have bad dreams?

Godprotectigbo2:
I am not even tired...but this guy said I irritates him .

Let me pity them



Let me go and sleep quietly now


Gudnite nairaland

betterABIAstate:
let me go to bed while you cry all night

Godprotectigbo2:
So u are still around. O Kwa ya

betterABIAstate:
has really mended this one.

betterABIAstate:
singlehandedly decimated them.

I see twistaray crying and posting smiling smileys

omonkiti:
This is how and where human suppose to be living in d 21st century and not the Afonja way

omonkiti:
Afonjas are very poor and rachead

omonkiti:
Dude, roads are government affair, y buildings and structures are individual affair...
for your notice, this is Aba

CursedIboes:
Bae ke. Na man posing as a female, dont you know the style of flat.heads. One even deny being Eboe on this thread. Lol

CursedIboes:
You are getting angry and frustrated already. Dont eat me pls. Clifford Orji is from Ondo state. Even a whole governor is doing the needful. Shameless cannibal