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THE UNC NES' hf' -PAGE 2 M ath Facts Swapped Scientists eagerly swap information with their colleagues. An example of that exchange is contain ed elsewhere on this page today. Two University of North Carolina stat isticians shared information with another mathematician from the Remington Rand Corporation. Result: They solved a 17 years old problem involving Latin Squares." This is the story of their cooperation: Last February Dr. E. T. Parker ot the Univac Division of Remington Rand wrote to Dr. R. C. Bose in Chapel Hill. He told Prof. Bose that he had certain in formation which led him to believe the mathematical conjecture posed in 1782 by Leonhard Euler was wrong. Art ino on the tip, Dr. Bose went to work. with Dr. S. S. Shrikhande, also of the UNC Department of Statistics. The two of them "disproved" the Euler conjecture. They sent their results to Dr. Parker. He solved the problem in thirteen days. The three scientists presented their findings at the 557th meeting of the Amer ican Mathematical Society in New York. It was a triple victory: (1) For the three mathematicians, (2) For finding an im portant solution to an old problem, (3) For the idea of collaboration between mathematicians and other scientists in their mutual exchange of information for the benefit of mankind. SUNBURN Drink Deep Or Taste Not The Library is the center of University llfThat is as true of the Summer Session as it is during the time from September to UThe University Library system contains more than qoo,ooo books. By next year the number will exceed one million. T ihrarian Terrold Orne and his excellent staff are providing their excellent services in making books available and in furnish ing for those who require it a high-caliber of reference assistance. We urge you to drink deeply from this Pierian Spring. nvKRHEARD: Journalism Pro-' fessor Kenneth Byerly lightly con trasting Duke and Carolina: "There's one thing Duke has we're lacking an outstanding Uni versity only twelve miles away! Two guys appeared in the of fice of Summer School Director Arnold King last Friday morning greatly disturbed. One fellow was takng one course, the other two. The guy taking one course wanted to know if, since he was being hilled for full tuition for taking one course, tiis buddy with the two courses couldn't also take the extra course he was entitled to. Spanish Instructor asked class in Spanish, "Are there any ques tions?" Silence. In Spanish again, assuringly, "When class meets next time there will probably be some questions." All of it came after comments on how hard the text would be in the course. After glancing through Woollen Gym last Thursday, maybe the admissions test now used by the University should 'be abandoned. Anyone who can wander through the maze set up in the gym, enter at the right place, exit at the By STAN FISHER right place and hit all the right places in-between, surely deserves an opportunity to attend Caro lina. But if he can do all that, maybe he doesn't need to. . If all the registration placards, signs, cards, class ticket enclo sures and other little material were all placed in a pile, it'd sure be one heckuva an amount of scrap paper. The Chapel Hill jay cees could go mad. Some critics seem to be ponder ing whether "Sunburn" deserves the title of "column." No, it doesn't. "Sunburn" is an ' afflic tion, for the remedying of which, News readers have three avenues of recourse: (1) popular appeal (2) tearing up press (3) lynching. Aren't you glad we're not daily? REGISTRATION SCENE:- Ray Jeffries, Assistant dean of student affairs,' sitting at table hr gym playing with a matriculation card. He looked awful bored with' the entire mess. Wonder how many of those scenes he's watched, Registration at Carolina - and traffic jams around campus must correlate almost perfectly. Major Mathematical Conjecture Propounded 177 Years Ago Is Disproved Who . . . What? I" - - - , e ,. . - . - 3 V,T1' How three noted mathematicians two of them University of North Carolina professors cooperated in solving a major mathematical conjecture of 177-years standing was revealed in a recent front page Sunday edition of the New York Times. Professors S. S. Shrikhande and K. C. Bose of the UNC Depart ment of Statistics presented their findings in cooperation with the calculations of Dr. E. T. Parker of the Univac Division of Reming ton ' Itand at the 557th annual meeting of the American Math ematical Association in New York City. Dr. Parker "gave a lead" in February of this year to Prof. Bose in Chapel Hill on the prob lem of Latin Squares which was first propounded by the Europe an mathematician Leonhard Eu ler 'pronounced "oiler") in 1782. Dr. Parker reported what he then believed to be an "unimpor tant near miss" at disproving Euler's conjecture. Professors Bose and Shrikhande then arrived at results which led them to believe Euler was wrong. To test their results they sent ii to Dr. Parker who also solved the problem in thirteen days, working with the equations ob tained from Bose and Shrikhande. The three mathematicians are now known among their col leagues as "Euler's Spoilers." The findings will be useful in problems affecting industrial and agricultural statistics. By ROY GOODMAN To be found on our lovely cam pus this summer are many B.M. O.C. Number is Charlie Grey, Stu dent Body President, and two oth er Student Body Officers, Secre tary Sue Wood, and Treasurer Eobby Bingham. The summer school student gov ernment is headed by Angus Duff, who is president cf G.M.A.B.; summer school secretary-treasurer is Hank Patterson, Chairman cf the U.P. His rival Dewey Shef field of Student Party chairman i? here as a member of the Stu dent Government Board. Davis B. Young, who is best de scribed as being a damn . good editor of The Daily Tar Heel, has been spotted in his second home, EL TEMPO. The campus is also graced with many lovely heads from all over the country. I spotted lovely Misses Ann Lucas and Nancy Baker, two distinguished legislators, gracing this campus cet ete. Dr. Nash Collier has a very in teresting experiment in the Chem istry Department with students from all over the nation doin3 re search work. Professor Heatwave UNC NEWS Editor: Business Manager: Editorial Staff: General Manager: Director of Summer Session; Offices Telephone Edward Neal Riner Davis Young SUn Fisher, Kay Robinson, Peter Marks, Jane McCorkle, Susan Lewi? : Sam Magill A. K. King Graham Memorial 93331 or 93371 Dear Professor: Is it legal for a member of the faculty to hit a student? The new North Carolina law permitting corporal punishment of public school children does not say anything about switchings or ' spankings for older people. But from what I have seen around here, a good old-fashioned paddling by the faculty of the University would make some of these summer school students pay a little more attention and deter their goofing off so much. What do you think? Disciplinarian Dear Disciplinarian: As much as some members of the faculty would like to boot certain students down several flights of stairs, it is unlikely that a policy of corporal punish ment will be in fctce here. In the first place, some of the stu dents are too big, and a profes sor might be struck in return if he laid hands violently oa a student. I may be old-fashioned myself, but I favor standing in ' corners and wearing dunce caps for the obstreperous. I know this Ls in variance to a notion I heard expressed yesterday from a man standing in front of the - Post Office. He said: '.'If any professor finds he has in his classes here a schnolmarm who h3S spanked any child in her room, he should feel free to administer similar punishment to fit the crime to the enrollee in his own class." Myself, I think the fellow w'as spoofing. Professor Heatwave letter To the Editor: The town of Chapd Hi!l is to commended for its fine poiice force. It is surely he most ef fective police department in tbc Carolina? as far as giving out parking tickets is concern. Is it true h?-t you can make a l'fe time profession out of just writing parking tickets? Believe it not you can do just that in Chapel Hill. If this town is really interested in keeping the business cf the students why don't they build a free town parking lot. Think of the distress of the married student who goes "up town" to do some brief shopping and before he can come back to the car with change to ieed the never satisfied meter,; the police have been and gone, but not without leaving their pink calling cards. Don't think you can ever get by with not paying a parking ticket, because they will send to $5.00 worth of notices to col lect a $1.00 fine. Dear Citizens,' you have the potential of a very good police force, but don't let them spend their lives and your money by spending their duty hours in flicting the public with: unneces sary traffic fines, Dewey Sheffield ."Merely corroborative detail in tended to give artistic verisimli tude to a bald and otherwise un convincing narrative . . ." Gilbert and Sullivan E Equals MC Square Albert Eiasteia If you see anything anywhere that makes you want t S3y. "A funny thing just happened; I was walking down the street and I saw etc. etc," that is just th? kind of thing we want you to report to the UNC News. Just appoint yourse'f a reporter: Tell who. what, when, where. Bring it or telephone the UNC News Office at the Graham Me morial 9-33G1.
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