Meet Prof. Iya Abubakar, the first Northern Nigerian to earn Ph.D. in mathematics
Meet Prof. Iya Abubakar, the first Northern Nigerian to earn Ph.D. in mathematics
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African Mathematics Genius from Adamawa State..... A First Class graduate of Mathematics at the University of Ibadan in 1957, is also the first Northern Nigerian to earn a Ph.D. in any field when he earned it at the University of Cambridge at the age of 28.
At 33, he became the only Nigerian appointed as a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
At 37, Abubakar became the Head of the Department, of Mathematics/Computer Science of the University.
At age 40, the Adamawa-born egghead became the second indigenous Vice Chancellor of ABU, Zaria until he retired from academics at the age of 44 in 1978.
