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About James O. C. Ezeilo
- James Okoye Chukuka Ezilo (17 January 1930 – 2013) was the first professor of mathematics in Nigeria.
- He was often regarded as the father of modern mathematics in the country and was the fifth vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
- He was an alumnus of Cambridge University and died in 2013.He pioneered the use of Leray-Schauder degree type arguments to obtain existence results for periodic solutions of ordinary differential equations.
- He was preceded by Herbert C.
- Kodilinye.
- He was succeeded by Umaru Shehu.
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