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  • THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2. Wo THE WES 1 ERN C AROL1N1A.N Math not dull to Silber, NC State professor Mon and Photo bv Dre* Clark. If you're like a lot of students at Western, you think math is pretty dull. Not so to Dr. Robert Silber. Professor of mathematics at NC State in Raleigh. In his entertaining talk given yesterday afternoon. Dr Silber expressed the need for a "course to bridge the gap between the average student who is interested but might be scared oil bv the sight of complex equations and the fascinating field of mathematical games." He feels that once students see how interesting abstract math can be. they might be induced to take more courses in this field, Dr. Silber has been teaching at State for eight aftef doing graduate work at Alabama and finally receiving his PhD from Clemson. He cur rentlv teaches a course entitled "Recreational Mathematics." lt is a course which anyone can take and it is geared toward the liberal arts major with little or no math background, Snya Dr. Silber. "We make no assumptions about your 11 h e m a t i back- Silber ground the most complex thing we do is add or subtract." Prof. Silber performed a total of about l> "tricks" although he candidly admits "all 1 do is camouflage what reallv is Some of his 'illusions" were of the "after-dinner" van as the famous "block-under the cup" trick and one involving the logical progression of a marble from one beer mug to another. In telling the solutions to the puzzke, Dr Silber explained that "all of the lun in doing these games is in explaining how simple the trick' reallv is. and that it reallv isn't a trick'after all." line's one ot the simpler diversions described In Dr. Silber. See it vou can guess the secret to the solution: Given: 12 3 4 5 6 7 9 1 Pick one of the numbers. 6 for example. 2. Now multiply the numbers bv 54: 12345679 54 666666666 Ihe answer will be all ti's! "God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends that plague thee thus!- Why lookest thou so?"-"With my crossbow I shot the Albatros." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge What in the world was a seagull doing up around Tilly Creek Tuesday morning in eight degree weather? To WCU art student Steve Brady, "Its just one of those mysteries that make life interesting." Brady was there because the heal al his home was off, and he thought a drive in the sun might be enjoyable. Although he didn't shoot the gull with anything more lethal than a Nikon and a 300 mm lens, he too was cursed, like Coleridge's Mariner. His car wouldn't start and he had to walk three miles down the mountain. Lumb picks up language "Sometimes in the lab one person would be talking in German to someone who spoke only English while a third scientist who spoke several languages would translate for the group," Lumb explained. He said he managed to pick up a lot of the Netherland language, "enough to talk intelligently in the grocery store," he chuckled. Cont. From page 1 I he biochemist-physiologist said the one regret he had about the year he spent in Holland was that he was unable to exchnage notes with some Russian scientists who arrived shortly after he left. Lumb's research has been funded through grants from the National Cancer Institute and was also supported by the Dutch equivalent of the American Cancer Society, the Queen Wilhelmina Funds. Dr. Lumb in the lab. (WCU photo by Harry Duke) andle Arrangements Christmas Flowers Wreaths Christmas Trees
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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