Professor Gabriel A. Oyibo obtained his Ph.
D. in Aeronautics and Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI) Troy, New York where he worked for four (4) years
on NASA/AFOSR sponsored research and made several contributions
in aircraft design, aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, mathematics
and taught several courses. Dr. Oyibo received Knighthood by His
Royal Highness of the Igala Kingdom.
Mysteriously in 2002, there has appeared a
hoax around the internet that Dr. Oyibo is a Nobel Prize Nominee
(some of the writers call it the Nobel Peace Prize). THIS IS
FALSE (akin to an acquaintance saying I ought to be nominated
for the Nobel Prize)... A simple check would be to search whether
anyone else has been told they nominated, and nominated in a period
so close to the time of discovery of the research.
The previous paragraph was written in 2002.
At the time of this writing, it is 2004 and the legend of repeaters
of the hoax are growing. As I understand it from the OFAPPIT institute
web site, Oyibo is the source. He claims he was nominated because
he solved the Unified Field Theorem (http://groups.msn.com/Dr-GabrielOyibosGrandUnifiedFieldTheorem). THIS IS FALSE. Were this fact be true, there
would be a hundred American Universities alone who would give
him a tenured Full Professor position with no teaching
and $200,000 salary. They would seek him out, not the reverse.
Otherwise, someone of repute, would steal his work - this also
appears not to have occured and is proof that Oyibo's work
has not such high value.
AND THE STORY GROWS. It is now November of
2004 and a recent check of the OFAPPIT web site shows Dr. Oyibo
now claims to have solved the Navier-Stokes Equations for which
one million dolars have been offered by the Clay Institute - given
the veracity of his previous claims ....
January 10 2005: A few days ago there was a
call for Oyibo to prove his
GAGUT Theorem for Nigerian Professors of Mathematics.
A few days later he responded
with an equivalent of I don't need to prove my work
is true, you need to show it is false. The reason for this
absurd stature is his claim,"The
Nigerian scientist also said a fellow Nigerian mathematician Alexander
Animalu, as well as the American Mathematical Society and the
European Mathematical Society had carried out extensive reviews
on GAGUT without any problem."
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Commentary January 12, 2005: I have searched for these so-called reviews, extremely
easy to do online if you have a subscription to MathSciNet. The
only so-called reviews I have found in Mathematics Reviews or
in Zentrablat are autoreviews. There are mere summaries of
content, not reviews.
It is not surprising Professor Oyibo has thrown
the ball back in the Nigerian scientists court. This is a ploy
which only works for the non-mathematics public, but mathematicians
will trust him even less. If its costs are reasonable, a real
mathematician never turns down an opportunity to prove your work.
If the costs are unreasonable, then a real mathematician will
say travel/housing expenses are the reason. But all we get is
an equivalent of I don't need to prove my work is true, you
need to show it is false. He can't defend a vacuum.
Commentary June 7, 2005, a review of Oyibo's
Work: Professor Alex Animalu of the
Department of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, Nigeria, has sent to me some of his work in support of
Oyibo's GAGUT work. They are : A
Review of Oyibo's Grand Unified Theorem, A
Guage-Invariant Relativistic Theory, Symmetry
Group for Grand Unified Theorem, and Dirac
Equation. Here is his response when I clarified my suspicions:
Dear Dr. Williams,
Again I thank you for your attention. If I may relie on
your statement that "only two responded that his claims
of solving the Grand Unified Theory could not be substantiated"
, then I can conclude that those guy's do not understand what
is being claimed. Every mature theoretical phyiscist ultimately
engages in the search for the "holy grail of physics"
- a unfied field theory. Oyibo's five GAGUT equations Gij,j=0
and his solutions are his own "holy grail". He
has merely put in differential form the conclusion of all
Christian prayers: "As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen!" I
am satisfied that these equations are viable candidates
for a "theory of everything". There are other
viable candidates. More in the next mail.
Please feel free to put my two reviews in your website.
With best regards
Alex Animalu
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I believe presently Gabriel Oyibo has a position
at a minor university in Connecticut. I have sought location of
the place where he works, OFAPPIT Institute of Technology. I have
been told that this is in his home. I can not verify this.
Apparently when Brooklyn Polytechnic failed
to tenure Dr. Oyibo, he filed a racial discrimination suit. I
have been told that, as part of Oyibo's settlement of the suit
with Brooklyn Polytechnic, that university was to nominated him
for a Nobel Prize; however, I been unable to get an independent
verification.
I inquired a past employer of the location
of Dr. Oyibo's undergraduate degree, I was told it was in London;
however, a recent website gives contrary data and could not be
written without Dr. Oyibo's help. I'll assume it to be true that
his undergraduate degree was in Nigeria..
Recent (2004) homages to Dr. Oyibo can be found
at
1. http://www.wilsonuche.20m.com/catalog.html
2. http://nigeriavillagesquare1.com/Articles/laolu_akande/2004/07/nobel-nominee-oyibo-my-discovery-is.html
His is a quote from an article in the DAILY
CHALLENGE (http://www.challenge-group.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=33183&sID=4)
where it is claimed Oyibo has had two nominations:
The Nobel Prize for physics would have been real nice, Prof.
Gabriel A. Oyibo told the Daily Challenge yesterday, but Nobel
nod or not, his work, including the pursuit of a cure for cancer,
continues.
Click
for excerpts of the contraversy
I have had with non-scientist supporters of Dr. Oyibo. I also
find it interesting that those scientists, who claim Dr. Oyibo's
work is much less than advertized, all claim fear of a discrimination
law suit by Oyibo, as the reason they can not be quoted here.
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OYIBO'S RESEARCH
I have searched Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt
here is everything I have located on Dr. Oyibo's work. I have
been told he has 104 publications. Perhaps they are in other
fields not reviewed by the only two review mathematics journals,
Mathematical Reviews and Zentrablatt.. If they have published
in recognized journals, they would appear in those journals.
Perhaps he will send me a vita and I will publicize all of his
work.
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Recently Dr. Oyibo discovered a new hodograph
technique for determining exact nonlinear two-dimensional unsteady
and three dimensional flow. This discovery has already begun to
change a century old scientific and mathematical perception that
the hodograph tool was only useful for two-dimensional fluid flow
problems. In evolving the Hodograph transformation concept into
a practical design tool, Dr. Oyibo has been involved in extensive
application of numerical methods and large computer programs utilizing
the Cray supercomputer. This Cray experience has convinced Dr.
Oyibo that the resulting design tool would potentially be a significant
discovery. In fact, some 3-D aerodynamic shapes are now being
evolved from this discovery which theoretically promises to make
shock free flight at the speed of sound possible. This research
is suggesting that the solutions of most mathematical physics
equations can be found from group transformation theory, the core
of my research. This theory hopefully can be used to solve the
full Navier Stokes and Reynolds Averaged equations for turbulence
in closed form.
BOOKS PUBLISHED
New Group Theory for Mathematical Physics, Gas Dynamics
and Turbulence , Nova Scientific Publ. (1995) revised. ISBN
1-56072-123-5
Edited: Applied Mathematics: Methods and Applications,
Nova Scientific Publ. (1995) ISBN 1-56072-293-2.
PAPERS
Some of these papers are published in several different places
and as such will not be multiply counted (in mathematics,
publishing a paper twice, is regarded as padding and not thought
well of). Where we have located them are listed as "also
published in ..." Click on the links for the reviews (mostly
auto reviews and summaries).
- Oyibo, Gabriel A. Complex variable theorem for
the general fundamental solutions for the full Navier Stokes
equations. Int. J. Math. Game Theory Algebra 9 (1999),
no. 4, 277--320.
- Oyibo, Gabriel A. Mathematical
modelling for fluid and gas dynamic turbulence, Nova
J. Math. Game Theory Algebra 6 (1997), no. 4, 223--274
also published in Applied Mathematics: Methods and Applications
(1995), 519--563.
- Oyibo, Gabriel A. Exact
closed form solutions to the full Navier-Stokes equations and
new perceptions for fluid and gas dynamics, Nova
J. Math. Game Theory Algebra 7 (1997), 13-74 also published
in Applied Mathematics: Methods and Applications (1995),
401--476.
- Oyibo, Gabriel A.Generalized
mathematical proof of Einstein's theory using a new group thory,
Nova J. Math. Game Theory Algebra 4 (1996), 1-24 also
published in Applied Mathematics: Methods and Applications
(1995), 205--223
- John Jara Nutakor and Gabriel Oyibo, An investigation
of a solution technique for the three-dimensional hodograph equation,
Applied Mathematics: Methods and Applications (1995),
103--158.
- Oyibo, Gabriel A.Closed-form solutions for nonlinear
quasi-unsteady transonc aerodynamics, AIAA J. 27 (1989),
1572-1578.
- Oyibo, Gabriel A.; Brunelle, Eugene J., Vibrations
of circular orthotropic plates in affine space, AIAA
J. 23, 296-300 (1985).
- Brunelle, E.J.; Oyibo, G.A. Generic
buckling curves for specially orthotropic rectangular plates,
AIAA J. 21, 1150-1156 (1983).
- Oyibo, Gabriel A. Unified aeroelastic flutter theory
for very low aspect ratio panels, AIAA J. 21,
1581-1587 (1983).
- Oyibo, Gabriel A. Grand unified theorem representing
the unified field theory or the theory of everything. Int.
J. Math. Game Theory Algebra 9 Online at http://www.geocities.com/igala1/new_page_6.htm
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