Sediq Afghan

Sediq Afghan (Template:Lang-Dari) (born 1958 in Kabul) is an Afghan mathematician. He is currently head the "World philosophical Math Research Center" in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is also a political activist. He had a prominent role in protests in Kabul about Afghanistan- and Islam-related issues, including an anti-American protest in 2003, a hunger strike to protest over beatings of journalists by Afghan security officers in 2006, and another one to protest the 2008 Danish Muhammad cartoons.

Biography

Afghan completed his preliminary education in Afghanistan and allegedly received his doctorate in mathematics from the Moscow University, though no evidence has been offered to support this.in his interviews he has claimed that Moscow university was incapable of supervising him in his chosen topic of mathematical philosophy. He is an outspoken person who criticises the Afghan government for the lack of attention to his works. He has recently calculated the numbers of the verses of Quran and its relation with the creation of universe.. In general Mr Afghan's work is a mix of superstitions and elementary number theory and as such offers no worth to the field of mathematics.