Kansas University Weekly.
383
The University loses Prof. Emch.
In the departure of Dr. Arnold Emch the University of Kansas loses one of its most promising young instructors. The public is not generally aware of the Mathematical ability and activity of this remarkable young man. When he applied for admission to the University two and a half years ago as a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy he made the statement that he was prepared to conduct any of the advanced courses in Mathematics offered in the catalogue. This sounded like a rash statement coming from a man of twentythree, but the writer soon found upon acquaintance with him that his claim was less than the truth.
His Mathematical ability rises nearly to the level of genius. Educated at the Polytechnicum at Zuerich, Switzerland, he readily absorbed the lectures of such masters of Geometry and Analysis as Fiedler, Frobenius, Hurwitz, Schottky, and others. In certain lines of work such as Synthetic and Descriptive Geometry, Analytical and Graphical Statics Zuerich is without a rival among the Universities of the world. Thus favored by nature and educational advantages Dr. Emch is prepared to do a very high grade of work. There are less than half a dozen men on this side of the Atlantic who can show better equipment than he for certain lines of work. It is very much to be regretted that this University is not yet able to offer to its students advanced courses in the subjects which Dr. Emch is so well equipped to teach.
During his stay at this University he has turned his attention more to pure Mathematics. During the present term he has conducted, outside of his required duties and for the pure love of it, the first course in Theory of Functions ever given in the University of Kansas. His lectures were heard by a large class of our students. He has published eight papers on Mathematical topics since coming to Lawrence, one of these being his Doctor's Dissertation. He is now well launched upon the sea of Mathematical discovery and is rapidly producing original work of a high grade. There are few
men of twenty-five either in this country or in Europe whose promise and performance can measure up to his; there may be others, but the writer does not know of his equal.
In leaving America for Switzerland he is throwing himself into the stream of Old World scientific progress where the competition for recognition and position is much more severe than here; there it is a veritable struggle for existence and only the fittest survive. It is a brave thing to do and but few would care to take the risks. Baring accidents to his career it is safe to venture the prediction that our University's first Ph. D. will do her honor in the learned circles of Europe. We lose a young man of brilliant promise but Switzerland gets back that which is rightfully her own. H.B.N.
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