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Tuesday. March 15, 1955 University Daily Kansan
Math's New Importance Cited by Prof. Price
There has been a great change in the position which mathematics occupies in business and industry in the last 20 years, G. B. Price, professor of mathematics said March 10.
Dance Lessons Offered By SUA
An opportunity to learn variations of the latest dance steps is being offered to all University students by Student Union Activities.
The SUA is sponsoring a one-
month dancing course to meet from
7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday nights.
The lessons will be variations of
the mambo, bop, jitterbug, tango,
rhumba, and square dancing.
Miss Shirley Hughes, physical education instructor, who teaches the University class in social dancing, is the instructor. She will be assisted by Pamela Barron, college sophomore; Sally Linde-muth, fine arts junior; and Mary Eckles, college freshman.
The lessons are given in the Jayhawk room of the Student Union There is no charge.
The lesson for this Thursday night will be variations of the mambo.
Accountants are needed by the Internal Revenue service to fill Internal Revenue agent positions.
Internal Revenue Positions Open
Men selected for these positions will I examine tax returns and records of individuals, partnerships, and corporations to determine correct tax liability. These positions pay $3,410 per year for the first six months of training and promotions to $4,205 per year afterward. Anyone interested in these positions may obtain more information by contacting Norman Denton at the Lawrence post office.
by contacting Norman Denton at the Lawrence post office.
Professor Price spoke on "The New Look in Mathematics" at a meeting of the Graduate club in the Sunflower room of the Student Union.
Prof. Price said, "Only 15 years ago, if you knew mathematics, it simply meant you intended to teach it. Now everyone wants a mathematician.
"The United States and Canada together can turn out only about 250 mathematicians a year. This was adequate 15 or 20 years ago. Now, aircraft companies, the oil industry, and many others all want mathematicians. There is a great need on one hand and a great shortage on the other hand," Prof. Price said.
"Two things have helped to bring this change about: we are now called upon to build far bigger pieces of equipment and we now have high speed, large scale computers," he said.
He explained that elements in the new look in mathematics are 1. The new types of problems that mathematician concerns himself with.
2. Mathematics now has subject matter of its own.
3. Mathematics is now concerned with the 'if this is so then this is so' game.
Prof. Price said, "Mathematics has expanded and come of age. There is a difference between a mathematician and a physicist. The physicist proves by experiments and the mathematician establishes all results by deductive proof."
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Senate Reopens Query Into Peress Case
Washington — (U.P.)— Senate investigators today opened a new query into the Peres case on an old note--accusing Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens of withholding a pertinent document.
The Peress case was a key battle in Sen. McCarthy's war with the Army last year. He repeatedly demanded with little success, that the Army reveal the names of the persons responsible for the dentist's promotion to major and his honorable discharge while Army files contained derogatory security information about him.
This time a Democratic chairman Sen. John L. McClellan (Ark.), instead of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), accused Secretary Stevens of less than full cooperation in disclosing the Army career of former Maj. Irving Persons.
Mr. McClellan declared in an opening statement that he felt the subcommittee is entitled to the inspector general's report on Peress, the New York dentist who was honorably discharged after refusing to tell Sen. McCarthy whether he was a Communist.
Aside from that, the Army and
the Defense department had been cooperative in meeting other requests and making witnesses available, he said.
But Sen. McClellan said the Army refused to disclose the report of the inspector general, who investigated the Peress case. Subcommittee counsel Robert F. Kennedy looked at it for an hour and a half, Sen. McClellan said, but it was taken from him and the Army would not return it.
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