Philip Emeagwali's video: A Black Mathematician and His Contributions to Mathematics Famous Physicists and their Discoveries

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. My contributions to computational mathematics are these: I mathematically and experimentally discovered how to compute and solve initial-boundary value problems that were previously impossible-to-solve. I discovered how to execute excruciatingly-detailed petroleum reservoir simulations. Such extreme-scale simulations, in turn, enable petroleum engineers to discover and recover otherwise elusive crude oil and natural gas. I discovered how to foresee otherwise unforeseeable global warming and how to do so by executing extreme-scale general circulation models and executing them at a never before-seen-resolution and executing them across my ensemble of processors that is a new internet and that is a new supercomputer de facto but that is not a computer per se. The modern parallel processing supercomputer is not the sequential processing computer of the old sense and of the 1980s and earlier. Each modern parallel processing supercomputer is defined by the configuration of the ensemble of processors that outlined it. I invented a new configuration of processors that defined a never-before-seen supercomputer that I named the Cosmic Supercomputer and that outlined a never-before-seen internet that I described as a HyperBall global network of processors that is described by the book “History of the Internet” and described as a small copy of the Internet and described as the contribution of Philip Emeagwali to the invention of the internet. My knowledge and experience with the supercomputer began on June 20, 1974 at a Computer Center in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The computer has changed since it was invented in 1946 and invented as automatic, programmable, and processing sequentially. But the way we define the computer has not changed. In 1946 and now, we still define the computer as the tool that enables a person to execute the fastest computations. Back in 1974, the prevailing dogma in supercomputing was that parallel processing will forever remain a huge waste of everybody’s time. The paradigm shift from serial computing to parallel computing occurred in 1989. There were three reasons I couldn’t make my 1989 experimental discovery of parallel processing in 1974. First, I didn’t have, in 1974, the intellectual maturity —across computational physics, across abstract calculus, across large-scale algebraic computations, across extreme-scale floating-point arithmetical computations, and across message-passing communication. I acquired that intellectual maturity during the next sixteen years, onward of March 25, 1974, of fulltime study and supercomputer research. The second reason I couldn’t discover parallel processing in 1974 was that I didn’t have a global network of 64 binary thousand processors that I needed to use re-confirm my theoretical discovery of parallel processing. I can only experimentally re-confirm my theoretical discovery across those 65,536 processors. The third reason I couldn’t discover parallel processing in 1974 was that the fields of calculus, computing, and email communication —grew enough to enable me to do my experiments and do it across a small copy of the internet that’s a global network of 64 binary thousand processors. But, more importantly, my original inspiration was to discover a new technology —namely, a small copy of the Internet that emulates a new supercomputer. That new technology that is a new supercomputer is a new instrument of extreme-scale computational physics that’s indispensable in the quest for crude oil and natural gas; that’s indispensable in foreseeing otherwise unforeseeable global warming; and that’s indispensable in vast and sundry problems in extreme-scale computational physics. That the fastest supercomputer cost as much as the budget of a small nation is a measure of its wide applications across the sciences and society. Parallel processing is the technological engine that powers both the slowest computer and the fastest supercomputer. 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 Philip Emeagwali 180128 2 of 7