Henri Hogbe Nlend (born 23 December 1939) is a
Cameroon
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ian mathematician, university professor, former government minister and presidential candidate.
Biography
Henri Hogbe Nlend was a professor at the
University of Yaoundé
The University of Yaoundé (french: Université de Yaoundé) was a university in Cameroon, located in Yaoundé, the country's capital.
It was built with the help of France and opened in 1962 as the Federal University of Yaoundé, dropping the "Fe ...
, and at the
University of Bordeaux
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It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Ta ...
.
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In 1976, at a meeting of the ]International Mathematical Union
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it was decided to form an African Mathematical Union
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. Hogbe Nlend was elected as its first president, a post he held until 1986.[ nternational Handbook of Mathematics Education Alan J. Bishop, , accessed 1 August 2008] The AMU was partially funded from another organization in Paris, which was also chaired by Hogbe Nlend. It is said that he was good at raising funds and that meetings were held twice a year.[
Hogbe Nlend was a candidate in the presidential election held on 12 October 1997, which was boycotted by the major opposition parties, and placed second, although he received only 2.9% of the vote. The winning candidate, incumbent President ]Paul Biya
Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo; 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who has served as the president of Cameroon since 6 November 1982. , appointed Nlend as Minister of Scientific and Technical Research after the election.
His textbook on the theory of duality topology-bornology and its use in functional analysis has been described as a classic.[Biography of Henri Hogne Nlend]
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, accessed 11 August 2008
Henri Hogbe Nlend is a member of the Historical Cameroon Party, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon ( - UPC) is a political party in Cameroon.
Foundation
The UPC was founded on 10 April 1948, at a meeting in the bar ''Chez Sierra'' in Bassa. Twelve men assisted the founding meeting, including Charles Assa ...
(''Union des Populations du Cameroun'') and leader of one faction of this party. Hogbe Nlend fell out with Augustin Frederic Kodock
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, the Secretary-General of another UPC faction, in 2002. At the time of the July 2007 parliamentary election, Charly Gabriel Mbock, member of Hogbe Nlend UPC faction and outgoing UPC parliamentary deputy, resigned from the UPC and joined a new party, ''National Movement Party'', vowing to carry on the struggle for which UPC has stood for, but this was disbanded when differences were resolved a year later, in a reconciliation meeting with the Hogbe Nlend UPC faction. (Kodock claimed in a press conference that Mbock had insufficient support to move this new party forward as he lacked the 500 signatures required by law).[Gabriel Mbock, Hogbe Nlend Bury 'UPC' Hatchet]
The Post, 12 June 2008 In reality, the 1990 Law to constitute an entity for legalisation as a political party in Cameroon does not include this requirement.
Henri is a foundry fellow of the African Science Academy
African Science Academy (ASA) is an all-girls advanced level school for Mathematics and Science established in August 2016 in Tema, Ghana, near Accra. Girls from different nationalities make up the ASA community. The girls foster the creation of ...
.
Selected bibliography
# ''Théorie des bornologies et applications'', (in French) Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 213. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1971. v+168 pp.
# ''Bornologies and functional analysis'', Translated from the French by V. B. Moscatelli. North-Holland Mathematics Studies, Vol. 26. Notas de Matemática, No. 62. otes on Mathematics, No. 62North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam-New York-Oxford, 1977. xii+144 pp.
# editor Functional analysis and its applications. Papers from the International School held in Nice, August 25—September 20, 1986. . ICPAM Lecture Notes. World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1988. viii+380 pp. (47-06)
References
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1939 births
Living people
Members of the National Assembly (Cameroon)
Cameroonian mathematicians
Candidates for President of Cameroon
Government ministers of Cameroon
Union of the Peoples of Cameroon politicians
Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences
Founder Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences