Ibrahim Eltayeb
Ibrahim Abdelrazzak Eltayeb is a Sudanese mathematician and professor of applied mathematics at the University of Nizwa in Oman. He is a member of the African Academy of Sciences, the Royal Astronomical Society, The World Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Early life and education
Eltayeb was born in a village on the Nile river, about 500 km north of Khartoum in Sudan, where he attended government schools. He studied in the United Kingdom on a scholarship and received a BSc in mathematics from the University of London in 1968. In 1972, he obtained his PhD in mathematics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.Career and research
Eltayeb began as a lecturer at the University of Khartoum in 1972 and was promoted to professor in 1980. He served as the dean of the university's Faculty of Mathematical Sciences from 1982 to 1984. In 1986, he moved to the Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, where he established the Department of Mathematics and Computing and directed it from 1988 to 1998. Following this, he served as professor of applied mathematics at the University of Nizwa in Oman.Eltayeb has published more than 50 papers in journals, mainly in the fields of geophysics, geomagnetism, and aeronomy. He has also developed mathematical models and methods for studying the Earth's deep interior.