Black Excellence: Kate Okikiolu
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Kate Adebola Okikiolu (born 1965) is a British mathematician.[2] She is known for her work with elliptic differential operators as well as her work with inner-city children.[3]
Okikiolu was born in 1965 in England. Her father was George Olatokunbo Okikiolu, a renowned Nigerian mathematician[4] and the most published black mathematician on record.[5] Her British mother was a high school mathematics teacher. Okikiolu received a B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1987. In 1991 she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles,[6] for her thesis The Analogue of the Strong Szego Limit Theorem on the Torus and the 3-Sphere.[5][7][8]