Zimbabwe At The 1996 Stellenbosch Camp There is no doubt that in Stellenbosch we met the cream of young Southafrican mathematicians. One reads about clever children but http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3550/stellen.htm
Extractions: In August 1996 Prof. John Webb, the ``grandfather" of Mathematics Competitions in South Africa, issued an invitation to Zimbabwe schools to provide up to 5 participants to join his annual ``camp" for talented young mathematicians in Stellenbosch, December 1996. The invitation was issued through myself and Richard Knottenbelt of Victoria High; we passed it on to those schools we identified as, firstly, having teachers keen enough to be interested and, secondly, having parents able to pay transportation to South Africa for a son or daughter. The day of the camp approached and still no firm commitment had been given; although some teachers and pupils had shown interest, the overwhelming factor of finance had bogged down the whole idea of participation. However luck prevailed and the Dominican Sisters provided money for 2 boys from Masvingo, Alexander Zawaira of Gokomere and Nation Mugochi of Victoria High. Then Phil Elder, teacher at St John's College Harare, decided that he, his daughter and a friend, would also be able to venture forth. The next problem was that of passports and visas; right up until the day before departure, we were running from Embassy to telephone and back .... but we succeeded and all climbed aboard a bus bound for Stellenbosch on December 12th. Each year approximately 30 South African pupils who have been identified as ``gifted", through their performance in various mathematics competitions and activities during the year, are invited to attend the Stellenbosch Camp. Ages of participants usually range from 11 to 17. For some of the children it is their second or even third such camp, whilst for others it is their first experience. The aim of the programme, apart from providing mathematical stimulation and enjoyment for all participants, is to select about 6 possible members of the South African Team to the International Mathematics Olympiad in the following year. Thus we were expecting some high powered performances and were not disappointed.
African History - Science issues of their newsletter, articles on The Ancients , pages on mathematics in Ghana,Namibia, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, profiles of african mathematicians. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hiscience.html
Extractions: Topics History : Science Search: Countries Topics Africa Guide Suggest a Site ... Africa Home See also: Science Includes brief histories of research on ants with citations to work from the 18th-19th centuries and chapters on Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. Discusses the ant's role in cocoa plant disease. Has bibliographies. By Brian Taylor, Visiting Academic, Department of Life Science, University of Nottingham (UK). In association with Dr. Francis S. Gilbert. [KF]
0048 The workshop aims to provide advanced training to young african mathematicians andscientists to prepare them for teaching positions in institutes of higher http://www.opecfund.org/new/press/2000/pr0048.html
Extractions: var contents = true; Vienna, Austria, June 16, 2000 The OPEC Fund for International Development today approved a grant of US$23,000 to help finance an advanced mathematics workshop that is being held next month in Kwabenya, near Accra, Ghana, by the Society of African Physicists and Mathematicians (SAPAM). The workshop aims to provide advanced training to young African mathematicians and scientists to prepare them for teaching positions in institutes of higher learning and research. SAPAM was established in 1984 in response to the great scientific and technological gap between North and South, especially Africa. It is mandated to further education and research in physics and mathematics, and to promote cooperation and collaboration among African physicists and similar scientific institutions on the continent. The society achieves its objectives by organizing courses, workshops and seminars for university teachers, researchers, and young mathematicians and scientists. The subject of the July 2000 seminar is Functional Analysis and its Applications to Differential Equations . Topics to be covered include Mathematical Biology, Medicine and Ecology; Mathematical Modeling in Economics; Computational Mathematics; Classical Methods of Differential Equations; Distribution Theory and Introduction to Sobolov Spaces; and Functional Analysis.
IMU Bulletin No. 42, Special Issue A program of visits to established centers for the african mathematicians, againwith preference for those involved in longerterm joint research or learning http://elib.zib.de/IMU/bulletin/42/CDEreport.html
Extractions: The CDE has also supported research teams (see lines TM in the tables 1994 and 1995). In 1997, it has initiated a new action aiming at supporting Mathematics in Southern Africa-MUSA project (see below) . Finally, the CDE has set up cooperation schemes with CIMPA/ICPAM (Nice, France) and ICTP (Trieste, Italy) to support workshops (CIMPA) or research visits (ICTP). As in the past years, the CDE received many applications and had to make a strict selection before awarding funding. As a general rule, the secretary received the applications, summarized them and circulated the summaries to the members of the CDE for evaluation and discussion before decision making. The CDE has been deeply involved in the MUSA project in the Southern Africa Region (a description of the project has been published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in May 1997, and is described below). This project, introduced by the secretary of CDE some time ago, has been set up thanks to an extensive work by Professor Clemens on behalf of the CDE. A planning meeting was held in Botswana (late December 1997) and it is expected that the MUSA project will evolve very positively in a near future.
ESTABLISHMENT OF A NETWORK OF GEOMETERS 4° Establish a bridge between african mathematicians and mathematiciansof African origin, working in developped countries. 5° Improve http://www.imsp-uac.org/geonet_ang.html
Extractions: (GEONET) Preambule The Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP) organized a workshop on "Riemannian, Symplectic and Contact Geometry" from July 1 to July 6, 2002 in Porto-Novo (Bénin). By the closing of the conference, it was becoming more and more obvious that it is necessary to create a permanent framework for future meetings, aiming at a new impulse to research in Geometry at large and its applications. Since the IMSP is already a good environment for meetings, the participants of the conference have decided to create around this institution a network (to be nicknamed GEONET) of researchers in Geometry at large and its applications.
Science Maths Computing Mathematicians' anniversaries throughout the year. african mathematicians.Hall of Great Mathematicians. A Chronology of Mathematicians. http://www.smc.qld.edu.au/scimathcomp.htm
Extractions: science, mathematics and computing gENERAL sITES oTHER sITES ON THE COLLEGE WEBSITE NUMBER SYSTEMS FAMOUS MATHEMATICIANS ... PATTERNS GENERAL SITES Search Engines Encyclopedia.com The Homework Spot MEGA Math Other sites on our college website Science Links Math Links Number Systems Number Systems Numeric Systems Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics Sumerian and Babylonian Numerals ... Mayan Mathematics Famous Mathematicians Biographies of Women Mathematicians Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Mathematicians' anniversaries throughout the year African Mathematicians ... Famous Scientists 4000 Years of Women in Science Biography Listing Ancient Greek Scientists Academy of Achievement Albert Einstein Online ... Treasure Trove of Famous Scientists Computer Science The History of Computing - A slide show lecture Computer Museum - slide show The future of computing Charles Babbage ... Glossary of PC and Internet Terminology TERM ONE ASSIGNMENT - PATTERNS http://www.uen.org/themepark/html/patterns/naturepatterns.html
Extractions: New hot-house for African science 6 September 2002 While Mark Shuttleworths jaunt in space helped stimulate public interest in science and technology in South Africa, a new institute is likely to be the real mover in creating a new generation of African mathematicians and scientists. A leading cosmologist, based in Britain but of South African extraction, is behind the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), which will find a home in an old hotel in Muizenberg, Cape Town. AIMS is to be a collaborative project between the Universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape, and Cambridge University. It plans to open its doors in October 2003 in a former hotel which belongs to the Turok family in Muizenberg near Cape Town. Professor Neil Turok, who holds the chair of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, is the prime mover behind the project. He is the son of African National Congress MP Ben Turok. The ambitious project has already secured US$75 000 from South Africas Department of Science and Technology for the establishment of a laboratory, as well as $345 000 from UK cellphone giant Vodafone.
Charles Bernard Bell, Jr. During the summer of 1968, Bell worked with african mathematicians inMarsabit, Kenya and with Indian mathematicians in Calcutta, India. http://www.maa.org/summa/archive/Bell_CB.htm
Extractions: Biography "For many years in Louisiana on each Sunday, 19 cousins and I would get together to share, relate to family and learn more about our family. Even today I am fascinated with the genealogy of my extended family. Though our family is but a ripple in the sea of humanity, the more I learn the more intrigued I am with mankind." Charles B. Bell, 1996. Bell had an illustrious career as a world class mathematican-statistician in academia and industry. He began his teaching in 1949-1951 as a graduate TA at Notre Dame. In 1951 he accepted a position as a Research Engineer with the Douglas Aircraft Company. He remained with Douglas until 1955. He returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University, as an assistant professor of mathematics and physics for the next two years (1955-57). In the fall of 1957, Dr. Bell went to Stanford University as a Research Associate in statistics and as mathematics instructor for one year (1957-1958). Bell was a professor of mathematics at Tulane University from 1971-1977. During the summer of 1972, he was at the University of Gutenberg in Germany, and for the 1975-76 academic year, he took a leave of absence and spent the time at the National Science Foundation. From 1977 to 1981, Bell was a professor of Biostatistics at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1981 he returned to San Diego State University as a professor of Mathematical Sciences. He remained there until his retirement in June of 1992. During an eighteen month period in 1990-1991, Bell was on leave at Stanford University.
The Multicultural Advantage Link Directory The African Journal of Mathematics offers a forum for mathematical research withsome emphasis on the contributions of all african mathematicians and the rich http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/links/XcDirViewInCat.asp?ID=169
African Mathematicians of the African Diaspora . . .notable contemporary mathematicians aswell as historical african mathematicians. Prominent African Americans . . http://www.uhslibrary.com/african.htm
MathematicianSites Biographies index an index of thousands of mathematicians. Ancient and Modernafrican mathematicians. South American Mathematics. Women in Mathematics. http://www.wayland.k12.ma.us/middle_school/hagan/Projects/Mathematicians Project
LMS Council Diary June 2000 support mathematics within Africa. It wishes to support exchanges inboth directions with african mathematicians. The present scheme 5 http://www.lms.ac.uk/policy/old_councildiary.d/councildiary_jun00.html
Extractions: June's Council meeting saw the presentation by the Treasurer of the Annual Budget, which was approved. Our financial situation is healthy. We are increasing our expenditure on charitable mathematical activities; this seems to be in keeping with our status as a charity, and so Council was not penitent, despite an apparent drop in our income (hard to estimate since an accurate estimate of our publication surplus is not yet available), but felt that many would think we should spend even more in this area. Council also approved small increases in subscriptions and periodical prices. Council continued the discussion sparked off by Ken Brown's visit to Africa in January of ways in which the Society might usefully support mathematics within Africa. It wishes to support exchanges in both directions with African mathematicians. The present scheme 5 will not easily extend for this purpose, and a new scheme may be needed. Proposals for exchanges will be invited from UK mathematicians. It was noted that some excellent links already exist, but since it was recognised that many Africans do not have existing contacts with the UK, it seemed that the LMS would need to facilitate the creation of further links. The Society also agreed to give start-up support to the new Journal of the Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association, which will give a forum within the region for locally produced mathematics. The President has now returned from a very enjoyable and successful visit to St Petersburg and Moscow. During his visit he discussed LMS proposals for a prize fellowship scheme, which might finance brief visits by young mathematicians to the UK and afterwards offer them some continuing financial support back home. The details of such a scheme would need to be carefully worked out in consultation with leaders of the mathematical community within the fSU. The Society is anxious to provide support within the fSU and Eastern Europe, and not to encourage a brain drain; it is feared that schemes of this nature can often have that effect. There was also strong support in Moscow and St Petersburg for a proposal for a joint mathematical meeting with the LMS; this is being considered.
Extractions: The African Renaissance Statement of Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki SABC, Gallagher Estate, 13 August 1998 A struggle for political power is dragging the Kingdom of Lesotho towards the abyss of a violent conflict. The Democratic Republic of Congo is sliding back into a conflict of arms from which its people had hoped they had escaped forever. The silence of peace has died on the borders of Eritrea and Ethiopia because, in a debate about an acre or two of land, guns have usurped the place of reason. Those who had risked death in Guinea Bissau as they fought as comrades to evict the Portuguese colonialists, today stand behind opposing ramparts speaking to one another in the deadly language of bazooka and mortar shells and the fearsome rhythm of the beat of machine-gun fire. A war seemingly without mercy rages in Algeria, made more horrifying by a savagery which seeks to anoint itself with the sanctity of a religious faith. Thus can we say that the children of Africa, from north to south, from the east and the west and at the very centre of our continent, continue to be consumed by death dealt out by those who have proclaimed a sentence of death on dialogue and reason and on the children of Africa whose limbs are too weak to run away from the rage of adults. Both of these, the harbingers of death and the victims of their wrath are as African as you and I.
Extractions: Index by Profession Biochemists Biologists Chemists Engineers ... Zoologists Profiled Scientists Scientists Identified Not Yet Profiled Andrew Norwood Aheart Prince Winston Armstrong Elayne Arrington-Idowu Joseph Battle John Henry Bennett Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid David Harold Blackwell Simmie Samuel Blakney Lillian Katie Bradley Warren Hill Brothers Marjorie Lee Brown George Hench Butcher, Jr. Charles W. Cansler Edward Major Carroll Jeremiah Certaine Llayron L. Clarkson William Waldron Shiefflin Claytor Lois Louise Cooper Elbert Frank Cox Suzanne Craig Geraldine Claudette Carden Joseph J. Dennis, Jr. James Ashley Donaldson Samuel Horace Dougles James William Drew Henry Madison Eldridge James R. Ellis Wade Ellis Earl Owen Embree John Albert Ewell III Etta Zuber Falconer William Thomas Fletcher Joseph Everett Fuller Thomas Fuller Sadie Catherine Gasaway Fannie Gee Issac T. Gilliam, IV Joella Hardeman Gipson Israel Everett Glover Japheth Hall, Jr.
Female African-American Mathematicians Bibliography Female africanAmerican mathematicians Bibliography. Query From Kriste Lindenmeyer 22 Jan 1998 Dear H-Women subscribers http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~women/bibs/bibl-aframermath.html
Extractions: Query From Kriste Lindenmeyer 22 Jan 1998 Dear H-Women subscribers: I have a student who has identified some of the first female African American mathematicians. But she has found few sources. She has used some of the most obvious encyclopedias (for example the 100 Black Women in American History).I thought that H-Women subscribers might be able to help her find more detail about these women. Keyona has included a brief biography of each woman at least what she has found so far) in the paragraphs below. Any further advice about researching this topic would be very much appreciated. From TTU::KNS7090 "Key Stewart" Tenn. Tech. U.20-JAN-1998 I would like to work on the level of how these women made/or did not make a difference for African American women,and the impact they had on the math profession. ***Evelyn Boyd Granville**- born on May 1,1924 in Washington, D.C.; She was encouraged by Ulysses Basset and Mary Cromwell, who were at sometime her math teachers.She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1945 and elected to Phi Beta Kappa; Obtained her Ph.D from Yale Univ.; Spent a year at New York Institute as a research assistant then a part time instructor at NY; Later appointed to a associate professor at Fisk Univ.; Two former students-Vivienne Malone Meyers and Etta Zuber Falconer received their Ph.D's as well.; Dr. Granville worked at IBM involving herself in several of their projects, later becomes a research specialist (1956-1960). In 1963, she returned to IBM as a mathematician,four years went by and she took a teaching job at California State Univ, got married, retired at Cal State and then moved to Texas taking a job at Texas College (Tyler,Texas).In 1989, Dr. Granville earned an honorary doctorate from Smith College.
Extractions: Mathematicians of the African Diaspora In Mathematics, more than any other field of study, have we heard proclamations and statements similar to, " The Negro is incapable of succeeding ." Ancient and present achievements contradict such statements. One of the purposes of this website is to exhibit the inaccuracy of those proclamations by exhibiting the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within the Mathematical Sciences. click graphic to enter E NTER Mathematicians of the African Diaspora If you are stuck in a frame CLICK THIS
PACOM 2000 5th Pan african Congress of mathematicians. Cape Town, South Africa; 23 28 January 2000. http://ridcully.up.ac.za/pacom/
Mathematicians Of The African Diaspora Moved I am trying to compile a list of african American mathematicians. at 220859 From Doctor Sarah Subject Re african American mathematicians Hello! First, see Prof. Scott Williams' http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/mad0.html
