My lost hand became my motivation – First youngest Ghanaian Pure Math Professor

The first youngest professor of Pure Mathematics in Ghana, Professor Kwara Nantomah has shared how he landed in the mathematics profession.

According to him, there was pressure from the majority of family members to become a nurse, which was not his interest.

His ambition was to become a trained teacher, but he chose to pursue nursing to appease his family’s desire.

In his quest to pursue a nursing career, he submitted an application to a nursing school in Bawku, in the Upper East Region.

This gave him the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong goal of becoming a math teacher.

His lost hand, according to him, became a motivation as he took up the challenge to prove to his broken family that all hope was not lost.

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I was challenged by the mere fact that we have left and right, but that is just by human notation.

From there, I realised that it shouldn’t be a challenge.

Mathematics, or pure math for that matter, suited my purpose in some ways because it has little to do with the practical, which I would have been challenged with on the one hand.

So, in pure math, it was ok to go,” he narrated.

Determination, he said, is the major tool for his success today.

However, having to swiftly change to writing with his left hand has been a major challenge throughout his career development.

“The greatest challenge was to quickly learn how to write with the left hand after the accident.

He stated that mathematics tutors need to make the subject fun for students.

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