Kevin E. Osondu
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B.Sc.(First Class Honours,University of Nigeria 1966) and M.S.( University of Wisconsin 1968) 

Ph.D. (1974) University at Buffalo, SUNY
thesis: A Unified Theory of Extension of Bins to Semigroups and of Semigroups to Groups; advisor: Dov Tamari

: Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria

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Kevin Osondu is the first Black to earn a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

In addition to the position of Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. Dr. Osondu has been a member of the Council of the Nigerian Mathematical Society between 1984 and 1995 first as Assistant Secretary and later Vice-President. I have also been an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Journal of the Nigerian Mathematical Society since 1992.

Since 1995 Dr. Osondu served in the National Mathematical Centre,Abuja. As course organiser, Visiting scientist
and guest lecturer.

 

RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Osondu, Kevin E. Universal groups on semilattices of reversible cancellative semigroups. Semigroup Forum 43 (1991), no. 3, 331--336.
  2. Osondu, K. E. Universal groups on semilattices of reversible semigroups. Pure Math. Appl. Ser. A 2 (1991), no. 1-2, 127--133.
  3. Osondu, Kevin E. Extensions of symmetrisations of semigroups. J. Nigerian Math. Soc. 5 (1986), 29--35 (1989).
  4. Osondu, K. E. Universal groups on reversible semigroups. Semigroups (Szeged, 1981), 251--258, Colloq. Math. Soc. János Bolyai, 39, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1985.
  5. Osondu, Kevin E. Malcev sequences and associative symmetrisations. Semigroup Forum 29 (1984), no. 1-2, 61--73.
  6. Osondu, Kevin E. Symmetrisations of semigroups. Semigroup Forum 24 (1982), no. 1, 67--75.
  7. Osondu, Kevin E. The universal group of homogeneous quotients. Semigroup Forum 21 (1980), no. 2-3, 143--152.
  8. Osondu, Kevin E. Homogeneous quotients of semigroups. Semigroup Forum 16 (1978), no. 4, 455--462.
  9. Osondu, Kevin E. Homomorphisms of semilattices of semigroups. Semigroup Forum 19 (1980), no. 2, 133--138.
  10. Osondu, Kevin E. Semilattices of left reversible semigroups. Semigroup Forum 17 (1979), no. 2, 139--152.
  11. Osondu, Kevin E. Extensions of homomorphisms of a subsemigroup of a group. Semigroup Forum 15 (1977/78), no. 4, 311--318.

 

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