Abul Kalam Azad

Abul Kalam Azad (1 January 1933 - 15 December 1971) was a Bangladeshi mathematician. He was a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society of London, the Applied Mathematical Society of the United Kingdom, and the American Meteorological Society. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, on 15 December 1971, a group of Al Badr paramilitary personnel of the Pakistan Army abducted him from his home.

Early life Azad was born on 1 January 1933 in Ramkrishnapur village, Bheramara Upazila, Kushtia District, East Bengal, British India. He was a student of mathematics. He became the first in the first class in MSc in mathematics from Dhaka University. Azad was always very talented in his student life. He passed the post-graduate examination with a record breaking-number in applied mathematics from Dhaka University and got a gold medal.