Dean Schlicter who

[matematikawan]

The following quotation from Dean Schlicter is an inspiration

"Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics."


But who is Dean Schlicter. I don't see much information about him on the internet except for that quotation.

Do someone have knowledge about him?

[tiny-tim]

There was a Dean Charles Schlichter at Berkeley, and also at Wisconsin …

but no indication of any connection with the quotation.

It rather looks as if the quotation is invented.

[matematikawan]

That's a pity. It could have been a great service to mathematic if it had come from a famous scientist.

[matematikawan]

According to the book Mathematically Speaking - A Dictionary of Quotation, this is quoted in The Mathematics Teacher, Jan. 1936, Vol. XXIX, no. 1 p29.

[tiny-tim]

According to the book Mathematically Speaking - A Dictionary of Quotation, this is quoted in The Mathematics Teacher, Jan. 1936, Vol. XXIX, no. 1 p29.

hmm … we still don't know who he is, though :confused: …

The dictionary, at http://books.google.com/books?id=4abygoxLdwQC&pg=PA235&dq=%22The+Future+of+Geometry%22+Joseph&client=safari&cd=8#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Future%20of%20Geometry%22%20Joseph&f=false, attributes the article to Margaret Joseph, a teacher at Shorewood High School Milwaukee (who incidentally appears to have taught geometry to the future former Chief Justice Rehnquist … see http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19870504&id=bd4NAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6m0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5472,569936).

The best guess seems to be Charles Schlichter, dean of the graduate school of the nearby University of Wisconsin in the 1920s … see http://books.google.com/books?id=jJr6ZfkDbE4C&pg=PA371&lpg=PA371&dq=%22Dean+Charles+Schlichter%22+Wisconsin&source=bl&ots=5NYMGLCxhK&sig=R1NOTcdHLQ-lPExuxTOQWNHe60E&hl=en&ei=92IfS__FG46s4QbdrejcCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22Dean%20Charles%20Schlichter%22%20Wisconsin&f=false and http://www.enotes.com/company-histories/wisconsin-alumni-research-foundation/new-way-fund-research-1920s?print=1.

Does anyone have a copy of volume XXIX of The Mathematics Teacher? :smile:

("The Mathematics Teacher" (author: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Vols. 1-58, 1908-65 :smile:) is referenced at http://www.archive.org/details/mathematicsteac00unkngoog, but volume 29 does not seem to have been digitised. And it is not in the online catalogue of the British Library … http://catalogue.bl.uk:80/F/PI4JKA7LR8S4K8FN3GJR4MU6FCXBDG87UCECINC5TMCBFIH456-75790?func=find-d&find_code=WTI&request=Mathematics+Teacher&adjacent1=Y&find_code=WRD&request=&adjacent2=N&find_code=WRD&request=&adjacent3=N&x=27&y=-70&filter_code_1=WLN&filter_request_1=&filter_code_2=WYR&filter_request_2=&filter_code_3=WFM&filter_request_3=SE :redface:)