Adegoke Olubummo was Nigeria’s most memorable Teacher of Math in 1964. He was brought into the world on April 19, 1923, to the regarded first proficient Olorin of Orin, H.R.H. Oba William Adekolawolu Olubummo II and Olori Abigael Osarayi Olubummo in Orin Ekiti.
As a regal youngster, Olubummo got quality training at Methodist schools where he worked (Ifaki Methodist School) as a student educator in 1937. At 14 years old, Adegoke Olubummo was conceded into Wesley School in Ibadan, 1938.
In 1942, he got back to his place of graduation as an educator and for the following couple of years, he instructed at essential and optional schools in Nigeria, Ghana (then Gold Coast) and Sierra Leone. He acquired his B.A. from Fourah School in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1950. Adegoke Olubummo acquired his M.A. in Arithmetic (1952) and his PhD (1955) from Lord’s School, College of Durham in Palace Upon-Tyne, Joined Realm.
Mr. Adegoke and his family.
In 1955, he started a vocation as a speaker in the Division of Science, College School, Ibadan, Nigeria, where he was elevated to (Full) Teacher in 1964. Dr. Olubummo was Top of the Branch of Science at the College of Ibadan for a long time, where not set in stone to make subjective customs regardless of the impairments of improvement in a youthful African college. In 1985, he resigned from the College of Ibadan and became Senior member of the Personnel of Study of Ondo State College.
Adegoke Olubummo, with James Ezeilo and Chike Obi, was one of a threesome of dark (native) mathematicians who spearheaded present day science research in Nigeria. He spearheaded the foundation of the Discussion for Useful Examination and its Applications and the Nigerian Numerical Society.
Each of the three of Adegoke Olubummo’s youngsters are mathematicians. His little girl Yewande Olubummo is right now in the U.S. as an associate teacher of math at Spelman School.
Large numbers of his Ibadan understudies, T. O. Adewoye, Olusola Akinyele, S. K. Assiamous, V. A. Babola, the Representative S. O. Iyahen, E. O. Oshabi, and O. Popoola, headed out to procure a doctorate in Science.
Teacher Adegoke Olubummo passed on October 26, 1992, at 69 years old.
