His entry in wikipedia is a good start. Amazing achievements (even for a polymath):
Malami
Prof Malami Buba
Department of English Language & Linguistics
Sokoto State University
PMB 2134, Birnin-Kebbi Rd,
Sokoto, NIGERIA
thanks for that info Ndubisi--On 19 November 2015 at 14:55, Ndubisi Obiorah <nobiorah@gmail.com> wrote:Ralph Uwechue's 'Know Africa/Africa Who's Who' biographical dictionaries contain quite detailed descriptions of Drs. Nicol and Armattoe."There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself" - Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office..." - Aesop"In the long run, we are all dead" - J.M. KeynesOn Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <toyinkaidara@gmail.com> wrote:
Obadiah Mailafia,
thats fantastic information on Nicole and Armattoe.
what do you consider the best sources for information on them?
thanks
toyin
--On 19 November 2015 at 08:39, Obadiah Mailafia <obmailafia@gmail.com> wrote:While I do not see race everywhere (believe me), I get the impression that the scientific-mathematical world has this special thing of dismissing any achievement if it comes from an African. Many people do not realise that the late Dr. Davidson Nicol (popularly known with the pen name of Abioseh Nicol) most of the research and lab work as a graduate student at Cambridge University for which his professor appended his name in a paper that later earned him the Nobel. Davidson did most of the work, albeit collaboratively with his professor. Ideally, they ought to have shared the Medicine-Physiology Prize together, but the Nobel Committee thought otherwise.Dear Amiel,While not holding brief for Chike Obi, it seems clear that he nearly clinched the Fermat equation solution. What is remarkable is that while Andrew Wiles had the aid of computers, working solely on the problem for nearly a decade in Cambridge, Chike Obi sat in his ancestral village and worked on it just with pen and paper. He did come very close and it is remarkable that he dhttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15115166f520cca7id it without use of computers.Like Davidson who was a medical scientist, novelist and philosopher, another African polymath, Raphael Armattoe, ought to have received the Prize in Medicine-Physiology. He been nominated for the Prize in 1948 for his discovery of the "abochi" drug that saved millions of Africans from water-borne diseases. He was a PhD in medicine as well as a PhD in anthropology and was one of the finest poets to have come out of our continent. He perished in a plane crash in 1953 when he was only 39. Perhaps he should speak for himself:Obadiah Mailafia
THE LONELY SOUL
I met an old woman,
Talking by herself
Down a lonely road.
Talking to herself,
Down a country road.
Child, you cannot know
Why folks are talkative.. If the road be long
And travelers none.
A man talks to himself
If showers of sorrows
Fall down like arrows
The lone wayfarer
May talk by himself
So an old woman
On lone country roads
Laughing all the time,
May babble to herself
To keep the tear away.
Woman, you are sad! '
Tis the same with me… Raphael Armattoe.--On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:It's not over yet. Hopefully, Dr. Opeyemi Enoch will soon find his rightful place – the appendix of the next edition of Abdul Bangura (PhD Mathematics)'s Curry Prize winning book, "From Bones to computers"
And then there's the pecuniary itch which somehow does not seem to affect someone like Grigori Perelman : "On June 8, 2010, he did not attend a ceremony in his honor at the Institut Océanographique, Paris to accept his $1 million prize.[31] According to Interfax, Perelman refused to accept the Millennium prize in July 2010. He considered the decision of Clay Institute unfair for not sharing the prize with Richard Hamilton,[5] and stated that "the main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community. I don't like their decisions, I consider them unjust."[6]"
On Thursday, 19 November 2015 00:40:24 UTC+1, Amiel Fagbulu wrote:The basic truth has been expressed by those who rightly state that we hastily claim to have achieved immortality based on the mere acceptance of our works for publication. All those who referred to past experiences failed to add that even the father of Nigeria Mathematicians, Chike Obi, fell into that trap by claiming to have solved Fermat's Last Theorem. He did not, because when his work was eventually submitted to the rigor of proof it did not quite solve the theorem. That theorem was eventually solved in 1994 by Andrew Wiles. Obi's name is not even mentioned among those whose works contributed directly to the final solution of the theorem.Having said that however, it must be stated that Enoch, like Obi, does not sound like someone trying to pull wool over our faces. Like Obi, he was simply over-eager and not patient enough for his peers to crown him. Obi was a genuine genius and we are very proud of him. Enoch should wait until his work is endorsed by the rest of the world before adjusting the laurel-crown he has placed on his head. If it withers he should go back to the drawing board and continue his work. He should not be discouraged.The other petty issue of his being called a Professor should not becloud the issue here; it has taken me half my lifetime explaining to friends and others that I am far from being a Professor and still most continue to call me that. Worse and more still is the list of those who call me Chief. That is a foolish Nigerian thing, and as long as Enoch does not arrogate to himself what he is not, we should concentrate on the main issue and urge him on.AmielOn Tuesday, November 17, 2015 8:31 PM, 'Funmi Tofowomo Okelola' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
--"When push comes to shove, these "geniuses" often deny that they made such claims, that it was the Press that headlined them that way."When the so-called "Professor/Scholar" was confronted about his status and his so-called brilliancy, he stated "In California, people were calling me "Professor" and that journalist that interviewed me in the Guardian also called me a Professor. It was him, that stupid journalist. He called me a Prof." Hahahaha. Please, sorry, I had to laugh. Hahahaha. Some people are so desperate to become a Professor. What a shame! Hahaha.On Nov 17, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Mobolaji Aluko wrote:
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