“New Zealand seems exceptional among the countries of the world in its lamentable ignorance of the part played i by mathematics in .the. world is. progress, ’ ’ said Mr. K. E. Bullen in a lecture to the Auckland Astronomical Society. ‘‘The science of geophysics is i full of incidents where the xnathematiI cal theory led tho day, not only with ! predictions, but also with directions for 1 research. The existence of two distinct types of earthquake waves was ■tlieorectically predicted by Poisson in 1925, long before the waves were actually discovered.” Mr. Bullen advanced tho opinion that an increase of wider mathematical tuinkiug in New Zealand would help to cure many of the Pis that, affected ifee gfisssai bhsmM*
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 272, 20 November 1934, Page 4
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