Attia Ashour

Attia Abdel Salam Ashour (, 13 September 1924 – 17 April 2017) was an Egyptian emeritus professor of applied mathematics at Cairo University. He was a former president of the Arab Union of Mathematical and Physics. A former director of Advanced Schools on the Physics of the Earth. He was an elected member of World Academy of Sciences, a founding member of the African Academy of Sciences, and a chevalier in the French Ordre national du Mérite.

Early life and education Attia Ashour was born on 13 September, 1924 as the first child of his father's family in Damietta, Egypt. His father was a farmer and his mother was a trader. He started schooling at the age of seven, and studied at a primary school in Damietta for four years. He attended the Fuad I secondary school (Abbassia secondary school) in Cairo from 1935. He completed secondary education in 1939, and achieved the university entry certificate in 1940. Ashour decided to study Mathematics in the Faculty of Science at the King Fuad I University (Cairo University).

Career

Ashour started his career immediately after receiving his B.Sc. degree in 1944 as a graduate assistant at Fuad I University now Cairo University, Egypt. He worked for a year and two months before leaving for London for his PhD. He passed through the academic stages of senior Lecturer and assistant Professor till he became a full Professor of applied mathematics at the Faculty of Science, Cairo University in 1966 and he became emeritus professor in 1984.

Death Ashour died on Monday, 17 April 2017, at his Dokki residence in Cairo, at the age of 92.