| Show mathematics EASY TO HIM tennessee Tenne ea Pro feor never has ha been balked by problem em no matter how difficult bristol Url stol tenn landon C haynos for or 30 years yeara at the head ot of the mathematical department of 0 mil hud tusculum college la in cast tennessee the school where andrew johnson Jolin sou lea learned ned to debate la is one ot of tho the best mathematicians in tho the country it if not the tha best beat moreover lie he la is a man ot of comprehensible knowledge lie ha to Is a master ot of many languages and ot of all the sciences and translates the dead languages as aa easily as the modern nothing has ever come to his notice of a mathematical nature that he be could not solve readily when asked by pupils on ono one occasion it ho he had ever been stalled on a mathematical problem he be replied 1 I have not and while I 1 do not say eay it in the sense ot of boasting I 1 have no heI hesitancy y in making the assertion that there Is no problem based upon eel act principles that I 1 cannot solve belve at princeton the instructor in mathematics has been accustomed to allowing any pupil to pass without examination amin atlon who could solve a certain difficult problem in calculus few it Is said have ever been able to do it it professor sentell who was educated in academic mathematics under professor haynes tried this problem and tailed but he said to the princeton teacher his hi old professor in east tennessee tennesse could solve it and he asked permission to send it to professor haynes in a few days daya the problem came back solved the princeton professor looked it over and exclaimed correct and by an entirely new method of 0 solution at professor gentells Sen tells suggestion tion th the 6 prin princeton e eton mathematical head wrote to 1 inquire how long it took the tennessee professor to solve the problem the reply was just throe three minutes professor clayn haynee a has never sought bought to b be e known beyond his own ones room on the day ot of his graduation although be had bad written ills bis graduation address in three languages he be was waa not present to deliver it it being out on the river bank fishing professor haynes knows about many subjects ills knowledge ot of theoretical and applied electricity surprised the men in that department of chicago university ile he to is equally conversant with the science of agriculture ile ha la Is fifty three years yeam old |
