USA Africa Dialogue Series - letter to the Emir of dubai by Augustine Togonu Bickersteth London England 🇬🇧 may 9 2026

Dear  Emir of Dubai

This is my fourth letter to you

.if I may ask do you love  mathematics.? Have you got a map room in your  palace? Why i ask?

 Because  I have read Justin Marozzi's Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization highlights key locations, including Mecca, Baghdad, and Istanbul, that shaped Islamic history. The book explores how these 15 cities, spanning from Cordoba to Kuala Lumpur, built and defined the civilization. 

Emir  of Dubai there is something called  Mapmathematics .the convergence of mathematics  and map making.

Dear Enir I was taught  by the Theoretical  physicist Professor  Akin Ojo.

 Prior to becoming a Professor   Akin Ojo he was known as the Nurse Because  he was perpetually  so to saying in white Buba.a white top. And interestingly without  a wrist watch. But when promoted to the rank of Professor  he began to dress appropriately  but still drove  what observers  would call  a funny car. outdated car or an ugly car.

Dear  Enir that was the nature of the car park of the physics  department  university of ibadan  of those  days. So Professor  Akin Ojo informed me. Taught me .he is a Princeton university  trained  Theoretical physicist  so he perhaps understands  his subject. A phD from Princeton  university  one of his published papers  was the feature  of an exhibition  at the Kenrth Dike library! THE  CENTRAL  LIBRARY!!!

So professor  Akin Ojo  told me that if you  want to solve  a mathematics  problem you must first  define  the space  in which you are working. Tantamount to demarcation OF a football  pitch.so EMIR where there are no maps  there may be no development. 

Town planning  is related. YOU can use town planning  to eradicate poverty.

The town planners  arrange  or re arrange  the city so that  it works  like  clock work.AND then the city is more creative.  More productive 

Dear  Emir of Dubai to round up

What a mathematical physicist  does  according to Professor  AkIn ojo is analysis and what a theoretical  physicist  does  is synthesis. 

I rest  my case.thank you  for reading  Emir of  Dubai

Signed 

Augustine Togonu Bickersteth London England 🇬🇧 may 9 2026 

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