Henri Hogbe Nlend

Henri Hogbe Nlend (nprn 23 December 1939) is a Cameroonian mathematician, university professor, government minister and presidential candidate.

Biography

Henri Hogbe Nlend was a Professor at the University of Yaoundé, and at the University of Bordeaux.

In 1976 at a meeting of the International Mathematical Union it was decided to form an African Mathematical Union. Hogbe Nlend was elected as its first president. A post he held until 1986. [International Handbook of Mathematics Education] , Alan J. Bishop, ISBN 0792335333, accessed 1 August 2008] The AMU was partially funded from another body on Paris which was also chaired by Hogbe Nlend. It was said that he was good at raising funds and that meetings were held twice a year.

On 12 October 1997 Hogbe Nlend stood to be President of Cameroon and came second but only captured 2.9% of the vote. The winning candidate Paul Biya appointed Nlend Minister of Scientific and Technical Research. [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jj4J-AXGDaQC&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=%22Henri+Hogbe+Nlend%22&source=web&ots=JHmhv6qoBw&sig=8VSt0J27KRdQ0eCyw4NAFFAkNqk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA166,M1 Africa South of the Sahara 2004] , Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge]

His text book on the theory on duality topology-bornology and its use in functional analysis has been described as a classic. [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/nlend_henri_hogbe.html Biography og Henri Hogne Nlend] , Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, accessed 11 August 2008]

Henri Hogbe Nlend is a member of the historical Cameroon party, "Union des Populations du Cameroun" and leader of one faction of this Party. Hogbe Nlend fell out with Augustin Frederic Kodock, the another faction UPC party's secretary general in 2002.During legislative elections in July 2007, Charly Gabriel Mbock, member of Hogbe Nlend UPC faction and outgoing UPC member of Parlement resigned from the UPC and joined a new party, "National Movement Party",vowed 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 confeence that Mbock had insufficient support to move this new party forward as he lacked the 500 signatures required by law). [http://allafrica.com/stories/200806121078.html 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 has "not" this requirement.

elected 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. [Notes on Mathematics, No. 62] North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam-New York-Oxford, 1977. xii+144 pp. ISBN: 0-7204-0712-5
# 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. ISBN: 9971-50-545-2 46-06 (47-06)