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Show Has Made Discoveries in Mathematics andHopes to Be Released Kansas City, Aug. 8. Asserting I tbat be bns made mathematical di- I ccveries which will have a sweeping jtil.'uence on that science, (Michael Angelo McGinnis, serving ten years for forgery in the Missouri penitentiary, peniten-tiary, has offered to demonstrate his !iscovery to any committee of mathematicians math-ematicians Governor Herbert S. Had-icy Had-icy may designate. If a pardon will lie his Just reward for success, it was learned today. His communication was sent to the governor through Dr. D. G. Simpson of Clarksburg, Mo Dr. Simpson says the discovery made by McGinnis Is the reduction of the general equation equa-tion of the tenth degree to an equation equa-tion one degree lower. Among tho Jiscoveries claimed by McGinnis are: First, that for the general solution of an equation containing literal co-i co-i fficlents, there also lies a general lofarithmic solution for Its corresponding corres-ponding numerical equation, thus establishing es-tablishing a general method for solv- . in? numerical equations by logai- ( i thins; second, that he has found the ! exact relation of Ihc diameter of a circle to its circumference. i Since the time of Euclid, the rela- tion has been supposed to be ;i14Hi i plus McGinnis says he knows Just ! what the "plus" is. He nays he has discovered the exact root of all num- j born and that "Imperfect squares" will be no more. McGinnis Is a descendant of John J Napier, Inventor of logarithms, he I LAVS. j "I have known McGinnis tor years" :-ald Professor Greenwood, superin j Ifndent of public schools of Kansas I CItv. "He taught mathematics in a I lollege at Wichita. Kan., also in southern Missouri. A book of bis on algebra, wiitten, 1 am told, during a iormer term in prison, is a marvel oiis work. But for bis usp of Intoxicating Intoxi-cating liquor, this man would be an international authority, "Mathematicians to far never have j been able to solve literal equations above the fourth degree McGlnnl.? sys he can work them in the tenth European mathematicians say they nave proved it impossible to work t'neni above the fourth degree." |