GBA 301 Nira

In GBA 301 we get better acquainted with Dr Nira Chamberlain. He talks about the history of black mathematicians, his personal journey from being a child told by his careers adviser that he couldn't be a mathematician to getting a PHD in maths and becoming the first black mathematician to be included in the Who's Who, how the women from Hidden Figures could have been his role-models, the real world maths of mathematical modelling and so much more.

I sat down with Nira in a quiet room at University of Greenwich where he was giving a talk. We met each other for the first time at a Spark London fundraiser for the Steve Sinnott Foundation.

Content note: Racism, slavery

Nira plugs:

Success Looks Like You: Saturday 29th July: 1pm-4pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/success-looks-like-me-tickets-34548932788
@ch_nira: https://twitter.com/ch_nira
His website: http://nirachamberlain.com/
Black Heroes of Mathematics: http://www.mathscareers.org.uk/article/black-heroes-mathematics/
http://nirachamberlain.com/the-black-heroes-of-mathematics/

We mention:

Steve Sinnott Foundation: www.stevesinnottfoundation.org.uk/
Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/
Nira on Spark: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/notaboxer-nira
Greenwich University: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/
Babcock International Group: https://www.babcockinternational.com/
Ronaldo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo
Messi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Messi
Science Council: http://sciencecouncil.org
Who's Who: http://www.ukwhoswho.com/
Professor Phakeng: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamokgethi_Setati
Black History Month: http://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/
Black Heroes Of Mathematics: http://nirachamberlain.com/the-black-heroes-of-mathematics/
Hidden Figures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
Thomas Jefferson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
Target Oxbridge: http://www.targetoxbridge.co.uk/
Aston Villa: https://www.avfc.co.uk/
JFK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
Paul Erdos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
Thomas Fuller 1710 - 1790, Slave and Mathematician

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