PROFESSOR WAZIR HASAN ABDI (1920-1999) Professor Wazir Hasan Abdi joined as the founder Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of University of Cochin in 1977. His teaching career started in 1943 in a degree college in Lucknow which extended to many other institutions in other parts of India, as R.E.C. Srinagar, Aligarh University. He then taught and carried out research work in other countries such as Scotland U.K., Australia, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia and Canada. Born on July 1, 1920 at Jaunpur (U.P), he took his M.A (Mathematics) from Aligarh University in 1942. He completed his Ph.D. thesis entitled “A Study of q-Laplace Transforms” in 1962 under the guidance of Prof.R. P. Agarwal of Lucknow University. He was also awarded Ph.D. degree (h.c) by the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1969, where he worked from 1967 to 1976.