Chike obi biography

Chike Obi April 17, — March 13, was a Nigerian politician, mathematician, and professor. He was the first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics. He successfully used the perturbation technique, and several of his publications greatly helped to stimulate research interest in this subject throughout the world and have become classics in the literature.

Obi was educated in various parts of Nigeria before reading mathematics as an external student of the University of London. Immediately after his first degree, he won a scholarship to do research study at Pembroke College, Cambridge, followed by doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Obi returned to lecture at the premier Nigerian University of Ibadan.

He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in at the University of Lagos where he quickly rose to the senior academic role of a professor. Obi had won the Sigvard Eklund Prize for original work in differential equations from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. He was a university teacher until his retirement as an Emeritus Professor in However, a review of this proof published in Mathematical Reviews indicates that it was false proof.

In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism, and how best he felt the country should be managed.

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He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in but lost. The party later entered into alliances with the larger National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon and also the Action Group. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.

In , Obi was arrested and charged with treason in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, Obafemi Awolowo, of plotting to overthrow the government.