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Lere Shakunle
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LERE OYEBISI SHAKUNLE is a journalist, mathematician and writer. Lere wrote and directed the play, Tinuke, Beauty Queen of Oyo Empire, which was performed in Berlin in September 2007. Lere Shakunle travelled to the Federal Republic of Germany to do Mathematics, Physics and Social Science at the University of Goettingen in Germany during which time he founded a new mathematics called Transfigural Mathematics (TfM). The year was 1985. Since then Lere has written more than twenty books, most of them in manuscript form (most of them available at the Library of Congress in Washington), and has presented papers on Transfigural Mathematics throughout the world, including one at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin 1998 and another at the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Discovery of DNA in Chicago in 1993. Lere is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the Journal of Transfigural Mathematics (JTfM) - an interdisciplinary journal of mathematics, sciences, literature and arts - and is Director/Founder of The Matran School, an International School for Cross-Disciplinary Creativity. Lere was invited to the first-ever African Brain Gain Conference in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2004 to present papers on how to put Africa on the map, both scientifically and technologically. Before coming to the Federal Republic of Germany, Lere worked as a journalist with the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (reporter, co-producer), the Nigerian Television Service (reporter) The Daily Times (sub-editor, reporter), Student Magazine (Editor-in-Chief, Co-Publisher) and African Spark (Editor). In the Federal Republic, still a student, he launched a new magazine on international relations with a former fellow German student, Anja Schuckart, who later became his wife. Lere is a member of The New York Academy of Sciences, The American Mathematical Society, The Mathematical Association of America, The Chartered Institute of Journalists (UK-Ireland) and NIDO, Germany. Lere and his wife Anja, a fellow student at the University of Göttingen, currently live in Berlin with their children. www.transfig-math.de |
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