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Meet SA’s Professor Abdon Atangana, who has been ranked the world’s 2nd-best mathematician

Cape Town – A Professor from the University of the Free State (UFS) has been ranked as the second-best mathematician in the world and ranked 188th in all of science, technology, and engineering, in Stanford University’s Top 2% of Scientists in the World.

Professor Abdon Atangana, 37, originally from Cameroon, has called Bloemfontein home for the past 12 years and is a professor of applied mathematics at the Institute for Groundwater Studies at UFS.

Earlier this year, Atangana collaborated with his students and released two books.

In 2020, Atangana, a mathematician, made headlines after he was recognised as one of 10 South African scientists in the top 1% of scientists on the global…

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Tags: Bloemfontein | Cape Town | Free State | Stanford | University

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