Philip Emeagwali's video: Emeagwali: Parallel Computing is My Contribution to Algebra Greatest Mathematicians Alive

I’m Philip Emeagwali. The nine partial differential equations of modern calculus —called Emeagwali’s equations—began as the Second Law of Motion of physics. I encoded that Second Law of Motion into eighty-one (81) partial derivative terms of Emeagwali’s system of equations that governs the multiphase flow of crude oil, injected water, and natural gas that was flowing a mile-deep and across a production oilfield, such as the Oloibiri Oilfield of Nigeria that was the first oilfield discovered in West Africa and discovered in 1956. As a research computational mathematician, I insisted that the petroleum reservoir simulator must obey the laws of physics at all times and simulations. My contributions to mathematical knowledge include the mathematical discovery that the system of nine coupled, non-linear, time-dependent, and state-of-the-art partial differential equations in the calculus textbooks of the petroleum industry were not equating to the reality within the oilfield the partial differential equations represent. For that reason, I invented the nine Emeagwali’s equations that contained thirty-six [36] partial derivative terms that equated with the four physical forces that exists within all production oilfields. Along those lines, I also had to invent nine finite difference algebraic algorithms that were not constrained by in inverted commas “dependency” and constrained when executing across my new internet that was outlined by an ensemble of 65,536 commodity-off-the-shelf processors that were identical and that were equal distances apart. A necessary condition to making my experimental discovery of the Fourth of July 1989 was that I simultaneously send email messages to all 65,536 processors on my new internet and that I synchronously receive my email replies from all 65,536 processors. That massively parallel processing supercomputer invention took a narrative identity all its own, namely, I—the storyteller—became the story and the subject of school reports. My Contributions to Algebra Nine in ten supercomputer cycles are executed while solving extreme-scaled systems of equations of algebra. On the Fourth of July 1989, the US Independence Day, I experimentally discovered how to finesse my 64 binary thousand identical and commodity processors to email each other and to work together to reduce the time-to-solution of extreme-scale systems of equations of algebra and to reduce that time-to-solution from 65,536 days, or 180 years, on one processor to just one day across an ensemble of 65,536 processors. I experimentally discovered how to compute quickly and accurately and how to make the impossible-to-solve systems of equations of extreme-scale algebra possible-to-solve and how to use that new knowledge of massively parallel processing extreme-scaled problems in algebra and doing so to build digital replicas of petroleum reservoirs and the Earth’s climate. I invented a new supercomputer that encircled the globe in the way the internet does and that could be used to solve never-before-solved problems in algebra. That new supercomputer enables the computational mathematician and computational physicist to answer previously unanswerable questions in extreme-scale algebra that is the recurring decimal in their grand challenge problems. By definition, algebra is the generalization of arithmetic. In high school algebra, two letters represent two numbers. In the supercomputer algebra that arises from trying to discover and recover otherwise elusive crude oil and natural gas, one trillion letters must represent one trillion numbers arising from a system of one trillion equations of algebra. Those one trillion equations are evenly distributed across millions of processors that, in turn, solves the trillion equations in parallel, or solves them by computing one million calculations at once. In modern supercomputing, parallel processing is the disruptive technology that displaced sequential processing, a technology that established itself for half a century. TOPICS Philip Emeagwali Biography, greatest mathematicians of all time, greatest mathematicians in history, greatest mathematicians alive, greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, greatest mathematicians ever, greatest mathematicians of the 21st century, African Mathematicians, Black Mathematicians, African contributions to mathematics, famous mathematicians and their contributions to mathematics, biography of famous mathematicians of the world For information about Philip Emeagwali, http://emeagwali.com https://facebook.com/emeagwali https://twitter.com/emeagwali https://instagram.com/philipemeagwali https://flickr.com/philipemeagwali https://linkedin.com/in/emeagwali https://soundcloud.com/emeagwali https://youtube.com/emeagwali