Who is Dean Schlicter? Discovering His Inspiring Quotes

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Dean Schlicter is associated with the quote "Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics," but little information is available about him. Some speculate he may be Dean Charles Schlichter, a figure linked to the University of Wisconsin in the 1920s, though this connection remains uncertain. The quote appears in "The Mathematics Teacher" from January 1936, but its origins are still unclear. The discussion highlights a desire for more information about Schlicter and the context of the quotation. Overall, the search for Dean Schlicter's identity and contributions continues without definitive answers.
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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?
 
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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.​
 
That's a pity. It could have been a great service to mathematic if it had come from a famous scientist.
 
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According to the book Mathematically Speaking - A Dictionary of Quotation, this is quoted in The Mathematics Teacher, Jan. 1936, Vol. XXIX, no. 1 p29.
 
Dean Charles Schlichter?

matematikawan said:
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=4a...ge&q="The Future of Geometry" Joseph&f=false").

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=jJ...="Dean Charles Schlichter" Wisconsin&f=false".

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" :redface:)​
 
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