A Mathematician Did It
EW of you, for example, think of the University when you switch on your radio. If you were suddenly asked to write down what picture the word radio called up in your mind, you would probably write down "a shop full of radio sets,’ or "an electrician fiddling about with wires" or some such thing. Not one in a thousand would say, "a University" or "a Professor." You don’t connect radio with the University---much less do you connect radio with pure mathematics. Yet it is a fact that radio is one of the University’s gifts to mankind -and that without the researches of a Cambridge Professor named Clerk Maxwell, it would be impossible for you to listen to this talk this evening or to the daily broadcasts of news from the other end of the world. Clearly, although unsuspected, the connection between the most abstruse University studies and daily life may be very real.-(H. G. Miller, Librarian at Victoria University College in 2YA’s Winter Course Series, May 20.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10
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