Boubakar Ba

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Boubakar Ba (born December 29, 1935 in Say , † April 19, 2013 in Paris ; also Boubacar Ba ) was a Nigerien mathematician .

Life

Boubakar Ba was the son of an African employee of the French colonial administration in Diapaga . He went to schools in Diapaga and Fada N'Gourma , followed by a visit to the Modern College in Niamey and the prestigious Lycée Van Vollenhoven in Dakar . There and in Niamey, the later politician Dan Dicko Dan Koulodo was his classmate.

Ba then attended the Institute for Higher Studies, which later became the University of Dakar , as well as the Lycée Hoche in Versailles and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris . In 1956, he was admitted to the Paris École normal supérieure - the first African in the history of the educational institution. There he made a degree in mathematics in 1959 . In the same year he became a member of the Société Mathématique de France . Ba studied mathematics from 1959 to 1964 at the Center national de la recherche scientifique , interrupted by a study visit to Princeton University from 1961 to 1962. He received his doctorate in 1965.

Ba worked as a lecturer at Dakar University from 1965 to 1968. From 1969 to 1971 he was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Madagascar . In 1971, he was appointed director of the newly established Center d'Enseignement Supérieur in Niamey, which under his leadership was expanded to become the University of Niamey , where he became the first rector in 1973. In 1979 he was replaced by Abdou Moumouni . Ba then continued to teach at Niamey University. He also had lectureships in mathematics at the University of Abidjan and the University of Paris-Nord, among others .

Boubakar Ba retired in Paris, where he died at the age of 78.

Posthumous honors

On February 9, 2018, the Boubacar Ba State University Tillabéri was named after him. On October 5, 2018, President Mahamadou Issoufou posthumously appointed him Grand Officer of the Nigerian Order of Merit.

literature

  • Seidik Abba: Entretiens avec Boubakar Ba. Un Nigérien au destin exceptionnel . L'Harmattan, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-343-06027-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seidik Abba: Entretiens avec Boubakar Ba. Un Nigérien au destin exceptionnel . L'Harmattan, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-343-06027-9 , pp. 15-16 and 19 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 83 .
  3. ↑ a b Décès de Boubakar Ba. Société Mathématique de France, April 23, 2013, accessed on January 1, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ Bulletin de la SMF Tome 100, 1972, p. 5 ( numdam.org [PDF; accessed January 1, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Guide de l'étudiant 2012–2013. Université Abdou Moumouni, p. 18 , accessed on January 1, 2018 (French).
  6. ↑ Morreu primeiro reitor Universidade da Niamey. Agência Angola Press, April 22, 2013, accessed January 1, 2018 (Portuguese).
  7. ^ Communiqué du Conseil des ministres du vendredi 09 février 2018. In: Niger Diaspora. February 10, 2018, accessed on February 11, 2018 (French).
  8. ^ Mamane Abdoulaye: Cérémonie de remise de médailles à la Présidence de la République: Sept illustres enseignants distingués. In: Niger Diaspora. October 8, 2018, accessed October 10, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Ba, boubakar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ba, Boubacar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Say
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2013
Place of death Paris