39-year-old African professor, Abdon Atangana has made history as the number one ranked mathematician in the world according to the Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists list.
Abdon, a professor and lecturer at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa was ranked number one in applied mathematics, mathematical physics, mathematics, and statistics in the world, and number 260 in all of science, technology, and engineering in the Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists list.
He also made history for the second time as the highest-ranked scientist from the institution included in Stanford University’s annual ranking of the top 2% of scientists in the world according to the university’s website.
Stanford University creates the list of the top 2% of world-class researchers based on citations over their full careers, highlighting over 100,000 researchers who make up the top 2%.
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“The ranking provides us with the impact of our outputs, and it shows that Africans can contribute to the development of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics while still in Africa,” Atangana said.
“This also shows that Africans in Africa can have an impact on the world. My motivation is to tell the next generation that Africans do not always need to graduate from the top universities of the global North to make a global impact,” she added.
Abdon emphasized the importance of enhancing the academic quality and reputation of African universities to attract students from around the world, particularly from more developed regions like the global North.
He said the development of Africa should not only rely on cultural exports like sports and music, but also on fostering excellence in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
”The development of our continent does not rest on sport, music, and so forth alone, but on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Having the best scientists, mathematicians, and engineers in the world in Africa should be the strive of all Africans,” he said.
Abdon is originally from Cameroon but South Africa has been his home for 14 years. In 2022, he was ranked as the second-best mathematician in the world and No. 188 in all of science, technology, and engineering in Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists in the World.
Abdon is the author of various crucial mathematical ideas that are applied and pure mathematics. He created the Atangana-Baleanu fractional derivatives and integrals in 2016, which constitute a novel calculus and are based on the general Mittag-Leffler kernels.
In 2020, he was recognized as one of 10 South African scientists in the top 1% of scientists on the global Clarivate Web of Science list. Abdon is also famous for developing a new fractional operator used to model real-world problems arising in the fields of engineering, science, and technology.
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