Albert Frank
I was born in 1943 somewhere on the hidden face of the moon;-) In 1965 I had a master degree in mathematics (option: physic, general relativity) at the Liège University (Belgium). I became a chess master and won the 1968 Brussel's chess championship. From 1966 to 1994, I was a teacher in universities in seven different Central Africa countries. I made several researches. A summary of the main ones can be seen here.
Unfortunately, it could not become a Ph.D. because it was obligatory to have other diplomas in the same field, and I was only an autodidact in psychology, as the mathematician of the faculty of psychology of the national University of Zaïre. I was also, among a lot of hobbies, flight instructor, bridge player and puzzles creator. I have been chess champion of these 7 countries (the level was not very high;-) In 1994, I had to escape from Rwanda, when the horror started there ...and I lost a lot of works I had done. I came back to Belgium. I found a job as statistician in a ministry - boring ;-) I retired a few months ago. I joined first Mensa, then Glia (the 3 s.d. Society created in Holland by Paul Cooijmans). I'm now member of about 25 high iq societies, including The Sigma IV Society (old norms), The Pars Society, The Prometheus Society (subscriber), The Pi Society (subscriber).
In March 2000, I took the initiative to invite in Brussels several "top IQ people", including Nik Lygeros and Philippe Jacqueroux. It was a fantastic meeting. After that, there where several meetings in Paris, Seattle, Sao Paulo and Curitiba. In all of these meetings, the great thing was the communication among the participants. I think I was very lucky to meet so many great human people. Several became big friends. A direct communication is totally different from an e-mail communication. I have written about 50 articles, and NATAN, a book in connection with communication.
- My favourite authors: Einstein, Kafka, Stapledon, Hofstadter.
- My favourite films: Citizen Kane, Cabaret, Les enfants du paradis.
- Particularity: I have no television;-)
- "Everybody does it" is not a reason for doing it.
