How is My Life in the USA different from Nigeria? | Philip Emeagwali | Diary of a Mathematician

I was an apprentice supercomputer scientist for forty-five [45] years. After investing forty-five [45] years in the craft of supercomputing, I had the command of materials that I needed to deliver my supercomputer lectures in prose and poetry, rather than on blackboards and power points. After nearly half a century of supercomputing, I knew one or two things about supercomputers that nobody else knew. That new knowledge that I alone had was how to solve the toughest problems arising in physics and how to solve them at once. My mathematical maturity grew from the algebraic representation of the Second Law of Motion of physics that was written as F=ma, or Force equals mass times acceleration. That iconic formula, F=ma, is the most important formula in mathematics, science, and engineering. I learned that formula, F=ma, back in June 1970 and I learned it in the eighth grade of Christ the King College, Onitsha, East Central State, Nigeria. Contributions of Philip Emeagwali to Mathematical Physics Fast forward a dozen years, I had taken as my second home half a dozen mathematics and physics departments that were across the United States. My second home was mathematics and physics departments from Corvallis (Oregon) to Washington (District of Columbia) to College Park (Maryland). For my first sixteen years in the United States, I made those mathematics and physics departments my second home. After sixteen years in mathematics and physics departments, I had grown...