Vol. 5 No 10 - Pi Mu Epsilon

A SUGGESTION FOR ENJOYABLE READINGProfessor 20bert k!. Prielipp of the University of k!isconsin, Oshkosh,highly recommends three relatively little knobm books to Journal readers.Fantasia Mathematics, assembled and edited by Clifton Fadiman, Simonand Schuster, Inc., New York, 1958 (Paperback). Noteworthy selections inthis collection of short stories and poems are:(a) Young Archimedes, by Aldous Huxley -- the difficulties faced bya young Ttalian peasant boy who seems to be a mathematical genius.(b) The Devil and Simon Flagg, by Arthur Porges -- a mathematicalversion of Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Vebster.(c) --And He Built a Crooked House, by Robert A. Heinlein -- unusualphenomena in a house having dimension higher than three.(d) A Subuay Named Moebius, by A, J. Deutsch -- strange things happento the Boston subway when the Boylston shuttle is installed.The Mathematical Magpie, assembled and edited by Clifton Fadiman,Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York, 1962 (Paperback). Choice selectionsin this anthology are:(a) The Lau, by Robert 14. Coates -- unlikely events become the rule.(b) The Appendix and the Spectacles, by Miles J. Brown, i.1.U. -- amathematician uses the fourth dimension to get even with a bank president.(cl The Nine Billion Names of God, by Arthur C. Clarke -- Tibetonmonks try to use a computer to set down all the possible names of God.(d) Milo and the Mathemagician, by Norton Zuster -- the adventures ofa little boy and a dog (who ticks) in Di.gitop01is.'-- +-Whom the Gods Love (The Story of Evariste Galois), by Leopold Infeld,McGrZw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1948 -- the moving story of ayoung mathematical genius who is caught up in the struggle for a new Frenchrepublic in the days after Napoleon's defeat during the reign of the Bourbons,His father commits suicide, his mathematical accomplishments gounrecognized during his lifetime, and at age twenty he is killed in a duelresulting from a love affair plotted by his political enemies.WELCOME TO NEW CHAPTERSThe Journal extends its welcome to the following new chapters ofPi Mu Epsilon which were recently installed:ALABAMA EPSILON at Tuskegee Institute, installed by Houston T.Karnes, Council President.CALIFORNIA IOTA at the University of Southern California, installedby J.C. Eaves, past Council President.GEORGIA GD4MA at Armstrong State Collegeby Houston T. Karnes.installed April 2 197QILLINOIS EPSILON at Northern Illinois University, installed by J.Sutherland Frame, past Council President.ILLINOIS ZETA at Southern Illinois University, installed June ly1973 by Houston T. Karnes.Eaves.T. Karnes.KENTUCKY BETA at Western Kentucky University, installed by J.C.LOUISIANA MPPA at Louisiana Tech, installed May 9, 1973 by HoustonMICHIGAN DELTA at Hope College, installed by J. Sutherland Frame.NEBRASK.4 BETA at Creighton University, installed April 25, 1973 byR-V. Andreey Council Secretary-Treasurer.PENNSYLVANIA MU at the University of Scranton, installed by EileenL. Poiani, Councilor.SOUTH CAROLINA BETA at Clemson University, installed March 27, 1973by Houston T. Karnes.