Tembisan publishes international academic book
Following his endeavor to convince the Department of Education to consider his maths book, Engineering Mathematics, Mr Thapelo Vincent Sello settled with an international publisher who believed in his capabilities.
Mr Sello, graduate from Cambridge College (a distance learning institution in the United Kingdom) is currently is pursuing a Bachelors of Technology (Btech) in applied mathematics. He said he was born in the Tembisa Hospital in 1989 on March 12 and was immediately taken to Lesotho.
“My parents sent me to Lesotho because of the economic depression. In Lesotho, I was raised by my grandparents,” said Mr Sello.
According to Mr Sello, he was raised in a small place called Lerebe in a town called Hlotse. He said they led a traditional life.
“Both my grandparents were academics. My grandfather specialised in mathematics and my grandmother specialised in natural sciences,” he said.
When asked what inspires him, Mr Sello said God inspires him and his role model is Isaac Newton.
“I chose to follow a career in maths because my grandfather always said maths is the mother of all sciences,” he said.
The former Ngqayizivele High School pupil said after studying other maths text books, he was inspired to write his own book.
“Finance was a challenge in publishing my book. It is expensive to write a scientific academic book,” said Mr Sello.
Mr Sello said he is researching his second book and he added that it is also a mathematics book.
“To young people who are struggling academically I wish to say – don’t let poverty and social stress draw you away from your studies because that is your ultimate goal which will get you out of poverty, you will reach what you want,” he said.
